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nelaaney · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

According to Rogers, counselors and social workers were emphasizing the wrong things in trying to treat delinquent children and adolescents. He believed that they should:

a. try to alter the threatening home situation.
c. try to modify the children's self-insight.
b. place the children in foster care.
d. focus on external factors such as the socioeconomic background.

Question 2

William Kell, one of Rogers's students, conducted a research to predict the behavior of delinquent children and found that:

a. family environment was the best predictor of later behavior.
b. self-insight was the best predictor of later behavior.
c. genetic factors were more influential than environmental factors.
d. it is impossible to predict later behavior.

ashely1112 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 21, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
FEEDBACK: Rogers accepted that one's attitude toward the self was more important in predicting behavior than the external factors widely thought to be so influential in childhood. He believed that counselors and social workers were emphasizing the wrong things in trying to treat delinquent children and adolescents. Counselors traditionally focus on external factors such as a poor family environment and alter the circumstances by removing children from a threatening home situation and placing them in foster care. Instead, they should be trying to modify the children's self-insight.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
FEEDBACK: William Kell, one of Rogers's students, attempted to predict the behavior of delinquent children. Rogers predicted that the factors of family environment and social interactions would correlate most strongly with delinquent behavior, but he was wrong. The factor that most accurately predicted later behavior was self-insight.