To Prevent Child Molestation, Children Should Be Taught

question 319

Multiple Choice

To prevent child molestation, children should be taught

• A)not to keep secrets from their parents.
• B)to tell their parents if anyone they are chatting with on the Internet wants to meet them in person.
• C)to shout "no" if any adult tries to engage them in sexual activity.
• D)to do all of these.

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Definitions:

Cognitive-behavioral

Pertaining to a therapy approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic process.

Psychodynamic Perspective

A psychological approach that emphasizes the systematic study of the psychological forces underlying human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience.

Psychoanalysis

A technique of treating psychological disorders and gaining insight into the subconscious mind, developed by Freud, that involves free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference.

Free Association

A psychoanalytic technique where patients are encouraged to verbalize thoughts as they come, without censorship, to uncover unconscious desires or issues.