As a community psychologist you have been hired to design a violence prevention program for a local school district. Your target population includes teenagers who have been convicted of violent crimes. Therefore your program will, by necessity, involve
a. primary prevention.
b. secondary prevention.
c. tertiary prevention.
d. forensic prevention.
Answer: c.
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In the context of humanistic therapies, client-centered therapists:
A) should follow a directive approach. B) must avoid viewing the world through a client's frame of reference. C) must be able to tolerate differentness. D) should not be completely honest with their clients to avoid hurting them.
Someone who suddenly loses the ability to identify objects by feeling them has probably suffered damage to what area of the cerebral cortex?
A. Parietal lobe B. Temporal lobe C. Frontal lobe D. Corpus callosum
After witnessing an accident that killed his daughter, George reports that he is blind. He bumps into objects at home and elsewhere. Specialists have found nothing wrong with the structure or function of his eyes and an MRI reveals no evidence of brain damage. After holding a case conference, a team of professionals suggests that George be evaluated for __________.
a) illness anxiety disorder b) conversion disorder c) somatization disorder d) psychophysiological disorder
Unused neural connections are removed due to a process called
a. pruning. b. synapse reduction. c. trimming. d. condensing.