The Life-Skills-Training Approach

question 51

Multiple Choice

The life-skills-training approach

• A) focuses specifically on the social skills needed to prevent drinking.
• B) focuses on social skills that bolster the adolescent's sense of being an efficacious person.
• C) is not an effective drinking prevention program.
• D) is not an effective smoking prevention program.

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Definitions:

Authoritarian Parent

A parenting style characterized by high demands and low responsiveness, where parents enforce strict rules and expect obedience without questioning.

Permissive Parent

A parenting style characterized by low demands with high responsiveness, where parents are lenient and may avoid setting boundaries.

Uninvolved Parent

A parenting style characterized by a lack of responsiveness to a child's needs, marked by minimal communication and limited emotional involvement.

Discipline

The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience.