Which of the following statements about persistent adolescent delinquency is true?
A) Adolescent-onset youths are far more likely than childhood-onset youths to engage in a life-course pattern of aggression and criminality.
B) Late-onset youths are emotionally negative, restless, and willful as early as age 2.
C) Early-onset youths seem to inherit traits that predispose them to aggressiveness.
D) The most effective treatment for antisocial youths is long-term incarceration.
C
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A) Family systems approach B) Role-playing C) Behavioral contracting D) Modeling
Evidence on the use of projective tests ______
a. is completely lacking for their use in diagnosing mental disorders b. is supportive of the use of the TAT but not the Rorschach c. is mixed, with supporters and critics both marshaling considerable evidence for their point of view d. is overwhelmingly supportive of their use in diagnosing mental disorders