Together with Members of the Community, a PHN Is Helping

question 12

Multiple Choice

Together with members of the community, a PHN is helping to complete a community assessment of an inner-city neighborhood. One of the issues that has surfaced is the rising level of youth violence. The assessment team decides to work on the establishment of a program aimed at promoting youth development. Areas included in this approach according the CDC guide include:

• A)Promoting family environments that support healthy development.
• B)Creating protective community environments.
• C)Connecting youth to caring adults and activities.
• D)Increasing the presence of law enforcement officers skilled in working with adolescents.

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Definitions:

AB Design

A basic experimental design consisting of a control phase (A) followed by a treatment phase (B), used primarily in behavior analysis to assess the effect of a treatment or intervention.

Randomized AB Design

An experimental design involving random assignment to two groups, A (control) and B (treatment), to examine the effect of a variable.

ABAB Design

Another name for Reversal Design, illustrating the sequence of observational and intervention phases: A (baseline) followed by B (intervention), another A (withdrawal of intervention), and final B (re-introduction of intervention).

ABAB Designs

A type of experimental design used in behavioral research involving sequential phases to compare the effect of a variable.