In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, acts of child maltreatment were ____.
a. illegal and punishable by severe fines
b. very uncommon but largely overlooked
c. practiced primarily among lower socioeconomic classes
d. considered to be a parent's right for educating or disciplining a child
Question 2In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, children's mental health problems were attributed to ____.
a. possession by the devil or other evil forces
b. poor parenting practices
c. chemical imbalances
d. low self-esteem
Question 3Interventions for children and adolescents are often intended to ____.
a. restore previous levels of functioning
b. serve as a warning for negative behavior
c. reform behavior to conform to norms
d. eliminate distress and promote further development
Question 4Most problematic behaviors shown by children are ____.
a. qualitatively different from normal behavior
b. shown to some degree by most children
c. caused by inadequate parenting
d. indistinguishable from one another