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A meta-analysis of 29 tutoring programs that included both adult non-professional and adult trained-professional volunteers demonstrated that these programs were effective at improving reading abilities among ______.

• A. elementary school children

• B. middle school children

• C. high school students

• D. high school dropouts

The ______ program employs trained paraprofessionals to provide services to parents from the prenatal period up to 5 years of the child's age with parenting skills, child development to disadvantaged mothers, and other maltreatment prevention efforts.

• A. Healthy Families America

• B. Family Health Initiative

• C. Rescuing Families

• D. Serving Our Families

Both Functional Family Therapy and ______ use a framework of modifying individual behaviors and cognitions with an emphasis on the larger group environment as the focal area requiring change rather than only focusing on the adolescent.

• A. Aggregation Therapy

• B. Community-Focused Therapy

• C. Environment-Focused Therapy

• D. Multisystemic Therapy

The ______ works primarily with low-income, first-time mothers prenatally up to 2 years of the child's age, teaching health behaviors to the parents and developmentally appropriate skills to the child.

• A. Developmental Intervention Approach

• B. Independence-Based Program

• C. Nurse-Family Partnership

• D. Strategic Education Outreach

______ are one of the most common interventions utilized in working with at-risk adolescents across many areas: delinquency, antisocial behavior, substance abuse, aggression, and school failure, among others.

• A. Group counseling approaches

• B. Mentoring programs

• C. Psychodynamic approaches

• D. Systemic programs

While using medication to control anxiety disorders can be effective in the short term, it can also produce side effects and ______.

• A. codependency

• B. system rejection

• C. tolerance buildup

• D. withdrawal symptoms

The ______ is a federally funded program providing both in-home parent training and center-based early care and education for children, utilizing paraprofessionals and teachers.

• A. Early Head Start

• B. Early Intervention

• C. Early First Steps

• D. Early Development

The primary approach for stabilizing the most serious depressive symptoms, such as suicidal ideation and behaviors, is ______.

• A. behaviorally based therapy

• B. cognitive-behavioralism

• C. psychopharmacology

• D. social-behavioralism

The ______ is an effective school-based program that decreases aggressive behaviors and improves social problem-solving through teaching children developmentally based lessons and instructions on emotional literacy and ability to identify feelings, self-control, interpersonal problem-solving skills, and positive peer relations.

• A. Posing Alternates and Thinking Strategies Curriculum

• B. Positive Avenues to Thinking Success Curriculum

• C. Posturing and Alternative Thinking Sequences Curriculum

• D. Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies Curriculum

The ______ is a set of assessment tools that identify key decision points within each child protection agency cases and provides intervention directives.

• A. Intervention-strategy model

• B. Problematic case model

• C. Review of Factors model

• D. Structured Decision-Making model