Identify and briefly explain some of the effects of poverty discussed in the text.
What will be an ideal response?
Poverty is associated with the growth of urban ghettos and the homeless population. People in poor or low-income neighborhoods are also vulnerable to violence, criminality, and threats to their well-being, health, and development, as well as high unemployment and under employment. Children in low-income neighborhoods experience poor academic achievement, higher school dropout rates, abuse, neglect, behavior and social problems, psychical health problems, and developmental delays. For adults, poverty is implicated in unhealthy behaviors, including tobacco use, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and poor or self-destructive decision making, which are all related to higher health risk rates and mortality.
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Psychoanalysis regards a client's free associations, dreams, and transferences as a form of:
a. libido. c. working through. b. repression. d. resistance.
The ability to engage in goal-setting and planning in counseling for children in middle childhood is influenced by increasingly complex:
a. Physical development b. Social development c. Cognitive development d. Emotional development
Identify different critical issues facing children and families today.
What will be an ideal response?
Pope and Vasquez (2007) provided recommendations for psychologists to prepare for unplanned interruptions such as sudden illness or death. Their recommendations included all of the following, except:
a. to provide directives for client file security b. to provide directives for client care c. to create a personal will d. to create a professional will