Media coverage frequently focuses on heartwarming features and inspirational stories about people with physical, cognitive, and developmental challenges. This often does what?
A. reinforces stereotypes and underestimates people's capabilities
B. raises awareness and engenders empathy
C. provides an advocacy venue
D. increases money for specific causes
Answer: A
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a. Care receivers consistently provide emotional support for care givers b. Older men are more likely to receive help from spouse than adult children c. Older women receive help more often from adult children d. People who are childless must rely on formal systems of care.
The following is NOT part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
A. Most U.S. citizens and legal residents must have health insurance in 2014. B. All lifetime caps on the amount of insurance coverage an individual can have will be banned. C. Insurance companies are prohibited from denying children coverage based on a pre-existing condition. D. All hospitals must provide abortions on demand.
A collection of beliefs based on a distortion of historical reality and shared by all family members, which help shape the rules governing family functioning are known as:
a. family rules b. invisible loyalties c. family myths d. none of the above
The experience of _____ is recognized in situations in which knowledge of and exposure to others' trauma and wanting to help increase the susceptibility to indirect or direct trauma for a social worker
A) ?medical trauma B) ?vicarious trauma C) ?complex trauma D) ?self-induced trauma