Discuss the goals and approaches that distinguish drug education programs from drug prevention programs

What will be an ideal response?

Drug education aims at providing balanced and complete information about drugs and is evaluated by whether the students know this information. Drug prevention programs aim at preventing drug use or abuse, and may be one-sided. Evaluations are based on follow-up surveys of whether students have started using or increased their use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, etc.

Psychology

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You and a friend have an argument in which your friend insists that males and females are very different in many intellectual and social domains. What can you tell your friend about gender differences and their importance?

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

Among the benefits of using a predetermined standardized battery of tests for psychoneurological assessment is

a. costs are lower because paraprofessionals can be used. b. it requires clinicians to cover all areas of functioning, even if no deficits are apparent. c. they are constantly revised, so as not to become obsolete. d. all of the above

Psychology