Using findings from research discussed in the text, describe two strategies that have been tried with some success to address maltreatment of younger children. How are these strategies connected to the risk factors for child maltreatment?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Two strategies to address maltreatment of younger children are (1) helping at-risk families reduce stress by managing their daily lives and child care, and (2) attempting to improve the attachment relationship between maltreating mothers and their children.
2. Families that have higher levels of stress are more likely to engage in maltreatment. Child-caregiver insecure/disorganized attachment relationships contribute to likelihood of child maltreatment.
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Suppose that Jane wants to persuade George to do something. If they are typical of their gender, which of the following best describes the situation?
a. Jane will be most persuasive if she uses assertive but not aggressive language. b. Jane will be most persuasive if she sulks or pouts to get her way. c. Jane will not be persuasive if she uses assertive language. d. Jane will not be persuasive if she tries to manipulate George into agreeing with her.
Select a behavior that you would like to increase or decrease; describe how you would set up a behavioral self-management program for this behavior; and explain why self-recording is so important
What will be an ideal response?
Stanley's novel, which even his best friend says "needs lots of work," has just been rejected by the fifteenth publisher he sent it to. Stanley has experienced
a. an external frustration. b. an approach-avoidance conflict. c. displaced aggression. d. a personal frustration.
Lynn married Philip after a short whirlwind romance. She had found Philip to be charming and a smooth-talker. Several months into the marriage, she began to realize that Philip had taken all the money from her savings accounts, had pawned some of her jewelry, and had run up huge bills on her credit cards. Philip had also been lying all along about working at the business where Lynn had been
dropping him off each morning. Worse yet, when Philip was confronted, he just laughed at Lynn. Philip would be diagnosed with which personality disorder? a. schizoid b. antisocial c. narcissistic d. borderline