A ____ summarizes the child's unique behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that together make up the features of a given psychological disorder.
a. nomothetic description
b. symptomatic description
c. diagnostic description
d. clinical description
Question 2Generally, isolated symptoms of behavioral and emotional problems ____.
a. are highly predictive of children's overall adjustment
b. show little relation to children's overall adjustment
c. are moderately related to children's overall adjustment
d. are completely useless in predicting children's overall adjustment
Question 3Generalizations regarding cultural practices frequently fail to capture ____ differences that exist within and across ethnic groups.
a. universal
b. biological
c. personality
d. SES
Question 4Research demonstrates that, with respect to aggression, girls ____.
a. tend not to engage in aggressive acts
b. are more distressed by aggressive acts
c. engage in more relational forms of aggression
d. are more aggressive than boys
Question 5What does it mean if a test is normed on a group that is representative of the population?
a. The majority culture was taken into consideration.
b. The test is as free from cultural bias as possible.
c. Age and ethnicity were considered but not biological sex.
d. The test yields higher rates of psychopathology for minorities.
Question 6Culturally competent mental health services include ____.
a. matching families with clinicians who have a Master's degree
b. customizing treatment to the family's values and customs
c. relying on knowledge gained through personal experience with that particular culture
d. basing treatment on what has been reported about a particular culture
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