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Kent’s stepfather has good woodworking skills, and the program has a woodworking shop. Goals for the family include increasing positive relationships among the family members. Which of the following would probably be the least helpful family intervention?

Chance will perpetuate his current style of interacting with and relating to others unless there is specific intervention to help him develop new patterns of relationship. The most effective manner of doing this is:

Harry was aware that these youth had a lot of room to grow personally and emotionally.  He also recognized their skill levels in social skills and problem solving, along with their general developmental deficits.  The camping trip would create a new context for youth to be challenged; and they would also be required to respond to those challenges, both individually and as a group.  If implemented successfully, the youth would have fun and experience a broad range of feelings, attitudes, new skills, behaviors and ideas that would offer them new ways of thinking of, and interacting with, themselves and the world they live in.   What option below promotes the most effective approach to enabling the youth to gain from this experience?

One of the girls in your group at the camp, 17-year-old Camilla, emerges as a strong leader.  In most activities she is the first one to try new things, the first to offer solutions and the dominant opinion when there is a decision to make.  She has strong social skills and the other group members acquiesce to her desires.  You notice that others in the group have leadership skills but are hesitant to offer them.  You would also like to allow others to experience the leadership role. One of the best ways you might intervene is:

Chance’s family micro system could be said to contain which of the following components, consistent with the social ecology approach to understanding a child or youth within the context of their family? 

To assist Joe in coping with mother’s unstable visiting pattern:

In planning how to respond to this situation, it would be helpful to base the intervention on which of the following models?

Given the family background, developmental stage and what is described in the case study, which of the following is the most true?

The maternal serum screening of a mother with a fetus with trisomy 18 will reveal:

Which pathology is most likely represented below?