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A Therapeutic Understanding for Working with Pregnant and Parenting Teens

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1.  What is a developmental area and focus for understanding teens?
  1. psychological area and social and environmental focus
  2. cognitive area and focus on operational thought
  3. psychosocial area and social and environmental focus
  4. ecological area and focus on cultural context and parenting
2.  CDC statistics indicate ___ of teen moms have their second child within 24 months of their first baby.
  1. 10%
  2. 15%
  3. 20%
  4. 25%
3.  _____ is the second leading cause of death for youth, ages 10-24 according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association (SAMHSA)
  1. Substance use
  2. Suicide
  3. Intimate partner violence (IPV)
  4. Gang violence
4.  Because of their physical and social immaturity, _____are more common in teens resulting in _____and _____.
  1. preterm labor; low birth weight; developmental delays or disabilities
  2. repeat pregnancies; perinatal exposure to drugs and alcohol; depression
  3. preterm labor; perinatal exposure to drugs and alcohol; disabilities
  4. repeat pregnancies; low birth weight; depression
5.  _____ is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands (APA).
  1. Recovery
  2. Survival
  3. Resilience
  4. Transformation
6.  Ethnographic interviewing involves the use of three types of questions:
  1. descriptive, multiple, and social dimensions
  2. descriptive, structural, and social dimensions
  3. dichotomous, structural, and social dimensions
  4. dichotomous, multiple, and leading
7.  The CDC recommends asking five “P” questions to assess for sexual history:
  1. Partners, Practices, Protection, Past, and Pregnancy
  2. Promotion, Patience, Protection, Past, and Pregnancy
  3. Partners, Patience, Protection, Past, and Prevention
  4. Practices, Preferences, Protection, Past and Present
8.  The Emic approach views the client from _____.
  1. within the perspective of the therapist’s perspective
  2. outside their cultural context
  3. within the observer’s perspective
  4. within their cultural context
9.  A key concept of the parallel process is the _____ as described by Pawl.
  1. clinical disclosure
  2. platinum rule
  3. clinical relationship
  4. partnership
10.  One of the basic techniques in Motivational Interviewing is OARS:
  1. Openness, Asking questions, Reaffirmations, and Support
  2. Offering support, Affirmations, Reflections, and Summary
  3. Open-ended questions, Affirmations, and Summary
  4. Offering support, Asking questions, Reaffirmations, Summary

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