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Efforts to address the needs of children who are at risk for developing mental disorders (babies of teenage mothers, children of those with severe mental disorders) are categorized as:

An institutionalized individual behaving abnormally says, “The doctor claims I’m schizophrenic! How else would you expect me to act?” The individual’s comments reflect:

The man who brought about the reforms of moral therapy to northern England was:

“In the past, fear helped our ancestors escape danger and live long enough to reproduce.” This statement points to the importance of ______ in understanding abnormal behavior.

One major difference between psychiatrists and clinical psychologists is that psychiatrists:

The process of evaluating a person’s progress after being in treatment is called a:

A patient’s initial reaction to being told she has a sexually transmitted infection (STI) is to insist that the nurse made a mistake with the test. The defense mechanism that BEST explains this behavior is:

A client is hooked up to an apparatus that measures galvanic skin response and blood pressure, after which the client verbally answers a series of questions. The type of clinical test being used is:

Research shows that danger to self or others is found in:

The function of the double-blind design is to guard against: