Gender differences observed in the prevalence of many personality disorders may be due to
a. tolerance of behavior in a culture
b. differences in help-seeking behavior.
c. gender bias on the part of the diagnosing clinician.
d. all of the above
d
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What is a key difficulty in predicting potential dangerousness?
a. Mental health professionals are limited in what they are allowed to disclose. b. Therapists are not able to use their gut instincts to stop future crime. c. The Minority Report Problem—just because someone may become violent doesn't mean they will. d. Violence is as much a function of the context in which it occurs as of the person's characteristics.
The block associations aided by the Block Booster Project in Chapter 11, and the Grameen Bank movement that provides economic help to small women's collectives, are examples involving which approach to community and social change?
a. consciousness raising b. community development c. policy research and advocacy d. social action
According to Freud, becoming "fixated" in a stage of psychosexual development is a result of receiving too little or too much gratification during that stage
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