Tara Cannot Believe What She Reads About Anger: "…Depending on the Circumstances

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Essay

Tara cannot believe what she reads about anger: "…depending on the circumstances, sometimes it is helpful to express your feelings, but sometimes venting your anger makes everything worse." Tara finds this difficult to accept because she has been told over and over that it is healthy to "ventilate" her anger. Based on your reading of Chapter 2, design a research study that Tara could conduct in order to examine this issue.

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Definitions:

Child Maltreatment

Physical, sexual, emotional abuse, or neglect of a child by a parent, caregiver, or another person resulting in harm or potential harm.

Child Abuse

Any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or other caregiver that results in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child.

Child Neglect

A form of child abuse where a caregiver fails to provide adequate care, supervision, or necessities such as food, clothing, and medical treatment.

Evolutionary Theory

Evolutionary theory is the body of scientific explanations that describes the mechanisms of natural selection and adaptation that lead to the diversity of life forms over time.