The theorist who emphasized the quality of the client-therapist relationship and considered it to be based on empathic listening was
a. Carl Rogers.
b. Sigmund Freud.
c. Alfred Binet.
d. James Cattell.
Question 2The more current terminology for what in the past was referred to as secondary prevention is
a. indicated prevention intervention.
b. universal mental health prevention.
c. selective mental health prevention.
d. psychotherapy.
Question 3According to Bleuler, the diverse manifestations of schizophrenia stem from:
a. A psychological separation of the person into different identities or personalities.
b. Hallucinations and delusions.
c. A breakdown in the ability to form associations between actions and their consequences.
d. The patient's unshakable belief that other people want to harm or persecute him/her.
e. All of the above
Question 4Determining whether a child is suffering from abuse or neglect is often difficult for
all of the following reasons except:
a. Most cases of alleged child maltreatment that come to the attention of authorities
are not so blatant as to make the determination of abuse or neglect self-evident.
b. Abuse and neglect rarely occur in isolation.
c. What may be considered abusive or neglectful at one stage of development may
not be at another.
d. The legislation provides only broad guidelines to establish working definitions of
child abuse and neglect.
e. The legal definitions of abuse and neglect are deliberately vague so as to
accommodate cultural differences in child rearing practices among different
ethnic groups.
Question 5In community psychology, an ecological perspective refers to
a. understanding that alleviating individual problems requires changes in environmental settings.
b. utilizing individual competencies to effect changes.
c. both a and b in conjunction
d. neither a nor b.
Question 6Derek, who is 13, has missed a lot of school due to illness. Derek has Crohn's
disease, an inflammatory bowel disorder that affects the digestive track of the small
intestine.
Derek can only eat certain foods or else he experiences severe abdominal
pain. In order to minimize his symptoms, Derek needs to take regular prescription
medications and to have a hospital check-up every three months. However, his
parents minimize the seriousness of their son's condition, take little care to help him
keep a healthy diet, and regularly miss his hospital appointments. When he is too ill
to go to school, his mother gives Derek aspirin and allows him to stay home alone. It
would appear that Derek is experiencing:
a. Factitious disorder by proxy
b. Physical neglect
c. Physical abuse
d. Emotional abuse
e. Emotional neglect