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kshipps

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As a community psychologist you have been hired to design a violence prevention program for a local school district. Your target population includes teenagers who have been convicted of violent crimes. Therefore your program will, by necessity, involve
 
  a. primary prevention.
  b. secondary prevention.
  c. tertiary prevention.
  d. forensic prevention.

Question 2

Many prevention programs in the field of mental health face an insurmountable obstacle in the field's
 
  a. unwillingness to spend money on prevention programs.
  b. lack of a specific understanding of the cause of most mental disorders.
  c. control by one group of theorists who do not believe in prevention.
  d. inability to make a decision as to which mental illness to target first.



swimkari

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: c.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: b.



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