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Rotheram-Borus and colleagues (2003) designed a successful intervention call Street Smart for runaway children. Street Smart provided these children with access to health care and condoms and delivered a 10-session skill-focused prevention program based on social learning theory. This intervention had a better success rate when:
 
  a. more sessions were conducted.
  b. when older children were instructed on the used of condoms.
  c. boys and girls were addressed in separate interventions.
  d. the information provided to the children was exaggerated to ensure they would follow the instructions.

Question 2

What happens if an intervention takes a shot gun approach?
 
  a. The health psychologists are forcing participants to finish the intervention process.
  b. Large numbers of people are exposed to the intervention with the hope that those who need it are included in the exposed group.
  c. It is the most cost effective approach.
  d. The outcomes are more effective because the of the care taken to intervene at the appropriate level with the population most at risk.



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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

D



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