Practitioners empower clients when they

A. Help them acquire the resources, skills, and opportunities to advocate for themselves.
B. Advocate for changes that will benefit them.
C. Act to change law and policies that negatively impact them.
D. Provide effective counseling for them to make better personal choices.


Answer: A. Help them acquire the resources, skills, and opportunities to advocate for themselves.

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Reflecting content involves:

A) Listening carefully to and reflecting on (i.e., thinking deeply about) what a client says. B) Listing the specific content or details of the client's story back to him or her. C) The repetition of a client's message (also known in the field as ‘parroting'). D) Listening carefully and then feeding back the essence of what the client has said in the interviewer's own words.

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

Gang intervention specialists use a nontraditional clinical approach while monitoring sensitivity of rapport building and concerns of safety.

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The Tuskegee Public Health Service studies considered a violation of

research ethics primarily because: A. the research participants' confidentiality was not respected. B. the researchers offered nothing in return for participants' participation. C. the participants suffered unnecessarily after a cure for syphilis was discovered. D. the researchers deliberately exposed participants to the disease.

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Dr. Lucero moves into an apartment in a low-income neighborhood in Washington, D.C. He is interested in studying coping strategies of the working poor. He remains immersed in the neighborhood for a long period of time, watching and recording the activities of the residents without engaging in them. This situation is an example of

A) complete participant. B) participant as observer. C) observer as participant. D) complete observer.

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