Determining 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 2
In 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.
The couple discusses grief over the loss of a child.
This young child is pulling at the ear and acting fussy, two important signs of otitis media.
Audiometry. The child in this photograph is undergoing a hearing test with an audiologist.
Treating the younger school-age child
The cranium of a young infant changes dramatically in shape with age. Initially the child has severa
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