You Are Asked to Develop an Effective Prevention Program Concerning

question 39

Multiple Choice

You are asked to develop an effective prevention program concerning eating disorders in teens. What approach should you take?

• A) Utilize psychoactive medication.
• B) Avoid teaching about specific diets.
• C) Create a highly structured environment in which the teens have little personal input.
• D) Teach the importance of resisting the social pressure to be thin.

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Definitions:

Acceptable Sexual Behaviors

Socially, culturally, or personally defined practices related to sexuality that are considered appropriate or permissible.

Culture

The shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours, and artefacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning.

Conditional Place Preference

A behavioral paradigm used to measure an animal's preference for an environment associated with a positive or negative stimulus.

Mate for Copulation

The selection of a partner for the purpose of sexual reproduction.