Which of the following statements summarizes perpetrator characteristics?

a. Abusive caregivers tend to have poorer parenting skill and resort to abuse due to a deficit of alternative options for shaping child behavior.
b. Abusive caregivers are usually drug and alcohol abuser as well.
c. Perpetrators are typically mentally ill and resort to abuse due to a deficit of alternative options for shaping child behavior.
d. Perpetrators are typically abused themselves as children.


a. Abusive caregivers tend to have poorer parenting skill and resort to abuse due to a deficit of alternative options for shaping child behavior.

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The processes by which information about past behaviors in a system are fed back into the system in a circular manner is called ______.

A. self-efficacy B. roles C. phenomenal self D. feedback mechanisms

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Tomm's acronym approach (i.e., the "HIPS and Slips" approach) is a systems-oriented approach to diagnosing pathology and health in families and helps to understand how families change with time, events, and circumstances

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Directive and structural techniques are most likely to be effective with individualswho have:

a. internalizing coping styles. b. aggressive coping styles. c. high levels of resistance. d. low levels of resistance.

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Successful crisis work may be described as

a. curing long term pathology. b. successfully resolving long-standing trauma. c. both a and b. d. tapping into the client's reservoir of resiliency.

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