Caution Around the Use of the MACI to Assess Adolescents

question 22

Multiple Choice

Caution around the use of the MACI to assess adolescents stems from all of the following except:

• A) more research is needed to establish the validity of the inventory
• B) test norms are based on a very small sample size
• C) the research which has been done has been conducted primarily by the test developer
• D) the limited research restricts the extent to which new information can be added to the knowledge base on which interpretation of the inventory is based.

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Definitions:

Narcotic Pain Medications

A class of drugs used to relieve acute or chronic pain, which work by altering the perception of pain in the brain.

Disenfranchised Grief

A type of grief that is not acknowledged or validated by society, often because the loss does not meet the societal norms of a significant grieving situation.

Adoption

The legal process of taking another person's child into one's own family and raising them as one's own.

Coping

The set of strategies or mechanisms individuals use to manage stress, difficult situations, or emotional conflict.