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Delinquency Risk Prevention MCQ

_____ is more intense and structured foster care setting that is designed for children and adolescents with more serious adjustment difficulties within their home, school, and community environments.

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Correct Answer: Treatment foster care

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Is trauma-informed care treatment framework that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects (psychological, social, and biological) of all types of trauma?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as federal and state law requirements that youthful and adult offenders convicted of certain sex crimes must be registered (name, address) in their localities.

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Correct Answer: Sexual offender registration

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_____ is defined as one of the commonly prescribed drugs for treating depression and other related problems.

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Correct Answer: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)

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_____ is treatment of mental disorders by psychological rather than by medical means.

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Correct Answer: Psychotherapy

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Is psychopharmacology branch of psychology concerned with the effects of drugs on the mind and behavior?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as system of psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind.

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Correct Answer: Psychoanalysis

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_____ is defined as parent or family support groups that provide formal peer-supported and facilitator-led programming, and typically meet on a regular, often weekly, basis.

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Correct Answer: Parent support groups

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_____ is class of stimulant drugs.

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Correct Answer: Neuroleptics and adrenergic agonists

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Is national Registry of Evidence-Based Programs searchable online database from the National Institutes of Mental Health of research-based and effective mental health and substance abuse interventions?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as mST is designed for adolescents with severe psychological and behavioral problems through short-term (four to six months), multifaceted, and home- and community-based interventions.

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Correct Answer: Multisystemic Therapy (MST)

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_____ is defined as subset of other systematic research studies that combines the results and produces a cumulative finding or impact.

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Correct Answer: Meta-analysis study

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_____ is programs that are focused on minimizing child and adolescent problem risk factors by using adult mentors who spend time with the young person, sharing skills, abilities, and experiences.

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Correct Answer: Mentoring programs

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Is home visiting programs often delivered by nurses or related paraprofessional staff, may focus on one primary role or service, or may offer more complete family support services to parents in their home?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as intervention that attempts to modify individual behaviors and cognitions, with an emphasis on the larger family or groups as the focal area needing change rather than only on the adolescent.

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Correct Answer: Functional Family Therapy (FFT)

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_____ is defined as program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. Early Head Start is for children ages 0 to 3.

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Correct Answer: Early Head Start

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_____ is set of assessment tools that identifies key decision points within child protection agency cases and provides intervention directives.

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Correct Answer: Decision-Making (SDM) model

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Is cognitive-behavioral therapy type of psychotherapy in which negative patterns of thought about the self and the world are challenged to alter unwanted behavior patterns or treat mood disorders such as depression?

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Correct Answer: True

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A meta-analysis of 29 tutoring programs that included both adult non-professional and adult trained-professional volunteers demonstrated that these programs were effective at improving reading abilities among ______.

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Correct Answer: Elementary school children

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For youths, ______ play a key part in reducing the risk of substance abuse.

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Correct Answer: Families

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Both Functional Family Therapy and ______ use a framework of modifying individual behaviors and cognitions with an emphasis on the larger group environment as the focal area requiring change rather than only focusing on the adolescent.

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Correct Answer: Multisystemic Therapy

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Reviews of behavioral parent training programs have found that the programs ______.

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Correct Answer: Are high quality and effective in decreasing problem behaviors

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In treating anxiety disorders, two forms of interventions, cognitive-behavioral therapy and ______, have been found to have the greatest impact.

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Correct Answer: Pharmacotherapy

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______ interventions for ADHD include classroom-based behavior modification, social skills training, and cognitive-behavioral skills training, as well as home-based/parent training.

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Correct Answer: Psychosocial

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Over the past decade, a proliferation of program development has occurred on what is commonly called ______, which seeks to address the harm caused by poverty, witnessing violence, domestic violence, and so on.

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Correct Answer: Trauma-informed care

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Which of the following has been identified as an effective element of parent training and education programs?

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Correct Answer: Early intervention

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The Positive Parenting Program, based on ______, incorporates various intervention techniques and multiple levels of intervention.

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Correct Answer: Psychological theory
Social learning theory

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______ is a federally funded program providing both in-home parent training and center-based early care and education for children, utilizing paraprofessionals and teachers.

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Correct Answer: Early Head Start

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The ______ program employs trained paraprofessionals to provide services to parents from the prenatal period up to 5 years of the child’s age with parenting skills, child development to disadvantaged mothers, and other maltreatment prevention efforts.

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Correct Answer: Healthy Families America

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The goals of ______ include providing parents with education, information, access to other services, support, and instruction on parenting practices.

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Correct Answer: Home visiting programs

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The ______ is designed to be used with families without maltreatment substantiation but who otherwise pose high risks for maltreatment in the future.

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Correct Answer: Family Assessment Approach

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Many difficulties linked to delinquency are rooted in ______, making it critical to investigate across a multi-developmental time period.

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Correct Answer: Earlier childhood

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The ecological/psychosocial model uses a ______ approach in understanding offending behaviors, delinquency, and/or school exclusion outcomes.

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Correct Answer: Multidimensional

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