The most common form of violence encountered by social workers is:
A. Being threatened with a weapon
B. Being hit or punched
C. Being verbally threatened
D. Verbal aggression
D
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Studies have found that 15-75% of survey respondents reported verbal aggression, and 2-29% report physical aggression in medical practice settings (Hills & Joyce, 2013).
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Measures of dispersion show:
a. How spread out data are. b. Where most data are located in a distribution. c. What values in a distribution are most important. d. What values in a distribution are least important.
D
a. trend studies b. cohort studies c. panel surveys d. all of the choices
Compare the ADL and IADL limitations among older men and women
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After 15 years of marriage, the wife of a Mexican American man left
him due, she said, to his heavy drinking. He drank only after a hard day's work and does not think he has an alcohol problem. But since she left, he is thinking twice. What occurred? A. His machismo let him feel that he fulfilled obligations by working hard and he deserved to drink without criticism. Now he feels emasculated and powerless. B. He is too full of machismo and cannot see how his alcohol dependence ruined his marriage. You are glad his wife finally left him after 15 years. C. He is experiencing acculturative stress, forgetting the fatalistic perspective of his culture. His wife was fated to leave. He does not have a problem. D. He has lost his feeling of machismo, which allowed him to hold his liquor.