Discuss child maltreatment including the various types of maltreatment. Who is most at risk for maltreatment?
What will be an ideal response?
• Definition – broad category of various types of maltreatment that violate the rights of vulnerable and dependent children
• Neglect (failure to provide basic needs); physical (hitting, slapping, kicking, etc.); sexual (rape, exposure to pornography, etc.); emotional (berating, yelling, etc.)
• Low SES; infants and toddlers; African American, Pacific Islander and Native American children; children who are socially isolated
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Despite all the criticisms of the use of life stress scales,
A) their reliability and validity was never challenged. B) they are still the preferred method for measuring reactions to specific environmental events. C) the finding that life change produces stress has been supported by other work. D) today's approaches to assessing the effects of life events are no better.
One study that found poorer women in California were more likely to die if they lived in better-off neighborhoods than if they lived in poorer neighborhoods because they were constantly being reminded that they were relatively poor
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
The first antidepressant drug was …
a. imipramine. b. iproniazid. c. fluoxetine. d. pentobarbital.