Care Should Be Taken When Using MSEs with Clients from Diverse

question 16

Multiple Choice

Care should be taken when using MSEs with clients from diverse cultures because:

• A) Specific cultural beliefs, especially spiritual beliefs, can sound like madness (or delusions) to outsiders
• B) MSEs are likely to underestimate psychopathology for minority group members
• C) Minority group IQ scores are notoriously low
• D) Minority group members don't have specific mental deviances, such as perceptual disturbances
• E) All of the above are true

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Definitions:

Pigouvian Tax

A tax levied on activities that generate negative externalities, intended to correct the market outcome by internalizing the external costs.

Socially Optimal Level

The level of production or activity where the social benefits of consuming a good equal the social costs of producing it, often considered ideal from a societal perspective.

Per-unit Subsidy

A financial aid provided by the government for each unit of a product produced or sold.

Private Market-clearing

The process by which supply and demand balance out at a price where the quantity supplied equals the quantity demanded in a private marketplace, without excess surplus or shortage.