What Is a Predictor of Dangerousness

question 75

Multiple Choice

What is a predictor of dangerousness?

• A) a history of violence
• B) the belief of a concerned person that the individual in question is dangerous
• C) lack of appropriate self-care
• D) inability to make responsible decisions about appropriate treatment

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Definitions:

Neurocognitive Disorders

A category of mental health disorders that primarily affect cognitive abilities, including learning, memory, perception, and problem solving.

Learning Disabilities

Neurologically-based processing problems that can interfere with learning basic skills such as reading, writing, or math, and can also affect higher-level skills including organization, time planning, and abstract reasoning.

Autism Spectrum Disorders

A range of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication, and by restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities.

Overregularization

Overregularization is a phenomenon in language development where children apply basic grammatical rules too widely, leading to errors such as "goed" for "went" or "foots" for "feet".