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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the leading cause of death for young minority males?
2. What is low resting heart rate associated with, according to the study by Losel, Bender, and Bliesener?
3. What is often the result of emotional disassociation?
4. What emotion is often linked with anger in troubled boys?
5. Why is parental abandonment particularly dangerous?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the tie between neurological problems and violence, and why Garbarino blames, again, medical technologies for the rise in neurological issues in children.
2. Describe the concept of the tipping point.
3. In addition to negative social maps, what are two other links between abuse and child develop issues?
4. What are the three options in terms of the development of aggressive and violent boys?
5. Explain why Garbarino sees little difference between murder and violent assault.
6. Explain how disassociation can help lead to violence.
7. Explain the three effects of living without a father on youth development.
8. Explain why suicides should be included in rates of youth violence.
9. Explain why Garbarino argues that medical technology is partially to blame for unreliable statistics on homicide rates.
10. Discuss what happened in 1998 that made the world take notice of youth violence.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Garbarino discusses the concept of trauma in the book. Explain what trauma is, and why people who experience trauma deal with it in different ways. Be sure to include the two types of trauma in your answer, and why one of these types has such a lasting and detrimental effect. Include the concept of meaningfulness, as well as ideas of terminal thinking.
Essay Topic 2
In the book, the effects of abuse on the social maps of children is discussed, in terms of the fact that abused children often see the world differently than those who are not abused. As part of that discussion, there are four specific elements of the moral code for abused children that have an impact on their relationship with the world. Discuss these four elements in depth. What are they, and how do they affect the world view of the abused child. How do these translate into higher changes of violence?
Essay Topic 3
Spirituality is a large influence on the violent tendencies of youth, according to Garbarino, and he stresses the power of spirituality in reclaiming the souls of the lost boys he works with. He stresses that spirituality can have anchoring effects on youth. He lists five anchoring effects of spirituality. Discuss these five effects of spirituality, and explain how these can help young people avoid violence in their lives, regardless of their circumstance.
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