A goal of family therapy is to

a. change the needs of individual family members.
b. improve family communication and interaction.
c. identify and treat the person in the family who is the source of the majority of the family's problems.
d. teach family members to remain neutral on sensitive issues.
e. move individual family members toward self-actualization.


b. improve family communication and interaction.

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Explain the term social dilemma, and list the three main types.

What will be an ideal response?

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One of the strongest predictors for initiating sexual intercourse is

A) conflicts with parents who disapprove of adolescent sex. B) having friends who approve of sex and are sexually active. C) not being exposed to sexual abstinence messages in school. D) being offered free condoms by government agencies.

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Research on peer-group exclusion shows that

A) children who belong to a peer group rarely use relationally aggressive tactics to oust no longer "respected" children. B) with age, children are more likely to endorse excluding someone because of unconventional appearance or behavior. C) most school-age children believe it is okay for a group to exclude a peer on the basis of skin color. D) girls, especially, regard exclusion as unjust, perhaps because they experience it more often than boys.

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