Which of the Following Is True Regarding Confidentiality and Child

question 27

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true regarding confidentiality and child abuse?

• A) An ethical clinical psychologist should never break a child client's confidentiality to report child abuse.
• B) Less than half of the states in the U.S. have laws requiring mental health professionals to break confidentiality to report known or suspected child abuse.
• C) all of the above
• D) none of the above

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Definitions:

Cohen's D

A measure of effect size indicating the standard deviation difference between two means.

Effect

The change or impact that an independent variable has on a dependent variable in an experimental setting.

Type I Errors

Incorrectly disapproving a correct null hypothesis, famously labeled as a "false positive."

Cohen's D

A statistical measure used to assess the effect size or magnitude of the difference between two group means.