A consultant suggests that a consultee use the technique of contingency contracting to increase an adolescent's compliance with rules in a group home
The consultee feels that contracting is a good idea, but modifies the technique--asking the adolescent to sign the contract, but eliminating any positive contingency for compliance. The contract has no impact on the adolescent's compliance. The failure of the consultation plan was likely due to:
a. low strategy integrity
b. low strategy acceptability
c. solving the wrong problem
d. theme interference
a
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of job burnout?
a. Having a large caseload b. Frustration and powerlessness c. Sadness d. Cynicism
The dosage level that would kill 5 % of those people who took an overdose of medication “X” (medication from last question) is 400 mg. This would mean that
a. this compound has a large therapeutic window. b. this compound has a narrow therapeutic window. c. the compound is highly toxic. d. the elimination of medication “X” from their body at this dosage level will be difficult for most people.
According to Ridley, examples of unintentional racism included all of the following EXCEPT
a. avoiding the issue of cultural differences by claiming to be color blind and treating all people as if they were alike. b. assuming that a client's problems are due to the client's cultural background. c. interpreting a lack of trust in the counselor to the fact that the counselor is of a different race than the client d. facilitating co-dependency relationships with ethnic clients out of a need to be accepted e. misinterpreting a client's culturally learned patterns of communicating or behaving.
Researchers are ethically obligated to
a. compensate the participants in their research, either monetarily or by an acknowledgment b. attempt to publish their results c. offer feedback to the participants in the study d. enlist the help of a statistician to interpret the results e. destroy all records that might identify participants as soon as the study is completed