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dejastew

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The authors of the text would most likely agree with which statement related to risk-taking in adolescents?
 
  a. The majority of adolescents engage in some sort of risky behavior during their adolescent years.
  b. Adolescents' brains are not fully developed and therefore they are more likely to engage in irrational behavior.
  c. While adolescents are at risk for engaging in risk-taking behaviors, the majority do not engage in potentially harmful behaviors.
  d. Adolescents'' brains are not fully developed and therefore any risky behaviors in which they engage have greater potential for harm.

Question 2

Dr. Sharma says, Suicide does not deserve to be studied separate and apart from depression because it is not a major cause of death in the United States. Also, we are at a point in time when there is decreased openness to talking about issues of death and dying, the meaning of suicide, and the right to take one's own life. Moreover, while suicidal behavior disorder is in the DSM-5 as a condition for further study, it is not officially a diagnostic category at this time Which part of Dr. Sharma's statement is accurate?
 
  a. Suicidal behavior disorder in DSM-5 as a condition for further study, not as a distinct diagnostic category at this time.
  b. Most suicidal persons do not exhibit psychiatric symptoms.
  c. Suicide does not deserve to be studied separate and apart from depression because it is not a major cause of death in the United States.
  d. We are at a point in time when there is decreased openness to talking about issues of death and dying, the meaning of suicide, and the right to take one's own life.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

A



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