Why are cases of elder abuse underreported?
What will be an ideal response?
There are many reasons elder abuse are not reported, including lack of seeing the abuse as a crime, emotional commitment to the perpetrator, shame, fear of retaliation, physical or financial dependency, among others. Student only needs to name a few.
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a. Somatoform b. Factititious c. Dissociative d. Impulse-Control e. Adjustment
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a. he needs to help Jeb search for resources b. Jeb has suicidal tendencies c. helping Jeb is beyond his capabilities d. Jeb might be a sexual predator
Treatments for positive behavior changes (i.e., smoking cessation) have been shown to be _________ for less acculturated individuals.
a. More effective b. Less effective c. Less stressful d. More stressful
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(a) casual contact (b) using contaminated blood from a person with HIV/AIDS (c) exchanging body fluids (d) drinking an HIV-infected mother's breast milk