Chapter 7

What has research shown to be useful in preventing child abuse?​

Early childhood intervention programs

Casey is a chronic victim of bullies. What is one way research suggests to decrease the likelihood that Casey will continue to be victimized?

Help him make more friends.

In a typical group of six-year-old boys, who would you expect to be the leader?​

The strongest kid

After having read a book on parenting styles, if you wished to raise a friendly and self-reliant child, you would try to adopt a(n) ____ parenting style.

authoritative

Liam is learning the values, behaviors, and roles of his culture. In other words, Liam is experiencing​

socialization.

If you're going to use time-out, make sure that​

you explain the reasons for the time-out to the child.

Rita is incredibly aggressive on the hockey rink but is very nice to everyone when she isn't competing. What term best describes Rita's "on-ice" aggression?

​Instrumental aggression

Concerning blended families,​

​children often fear that the step-parent will disturb their relationship with the biological parent.

As a typical parent in Latin America, Maria would place great emphasis on developing a strong sense of ____ in her children.​

​family ties

By far the most frequent sort of child abuse would be categorized as​

​neglect.