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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A. self-efficacy B. roles C. phenomenal self D. feedback mechanisms
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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.
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.