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Emotional disengagement
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According to the Corey's love does not involve?
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Close ourselves from others, isolate ourselves by never reaching out to another, refuse to trust others and make ourselves vulnerable, cling to an early perception that we are basically unlovable.
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In order to harden ourselves so that we won't experience a need for love, we can?
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When we love someone, we do not need to have other relationships
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The following is a misconception about love
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While love can last over a period of time, it is to be expected that it will take on different forms as the relationship matures
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The following is a rebuttal to the myth of eternal love
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They have a high need to take care of others yet appear to have no ability to make their own needs known.
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An "impaired giver" is a person who?
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A lack of self-love
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A common barrier to loving and being loved is?
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has responsibility toward the person love.
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A person whose love is NOT authentic
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entails a willingness to stay with each other in times of pain, uncertainty, struggle, and despair, as well as in times of calm and enjoyment
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Love means making a commitment to the person I love, which
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Likely to settle for less
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If I am overly dependent on my relationship for meaning and survival, then I am?
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Recognizing that others love and appreciate us, and accepting these factors to reach our full potential
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Self-love is?
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Diminish ourselves
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When we avoid intimacy, we?
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Each person expects the other to take responsibility for his or her happiness.
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According to the Coreys, each of the following is characteristic of meaningful relationships except
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Go places they haven't before and ask what each other want during love making
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Robert and Nancy have a meaningful, sexual relationship. They are aware that the intensity and novelty of their relationship has lessened after a period of being together. They can attempt to keep the romance alive by?
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making genuine contact by openly expressing what you think and feel.
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All the following are barriers to communication except:
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Entering another's world by listening with understanding
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Empathy, which is a basic component in any interpersonal relationship, is best understood as
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Overreacting, saying things you will later regret and walking away
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In dealing effectively with anger and conflict in relationships it is best to avoid?
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Heterosexualism, interpersonal discrimination, verbal harassment and institutional discrimination
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Gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals are frequently confronted with?
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Pertain to couples and also relevant to other personal relationships
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The Coreys' guidelines for meaningful relationships can be applied to what types of relationships?
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is not as important as being able to deal with conflict constructively.
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The absence of conflict in a relationship
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Concluding any anger or conflict you may have for someone and almost letting it go
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Forgiveness is?
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Continue to exert a powerful influence on many men
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According to the Coreys, what is happening to the traditional male role?
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he tends to have many close male friends.
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The one characteristic that is not listed as part of the all-American male image is
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Lose sense of self and strive towards others
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The price men pay for living by stereotypical standards is (are)?
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Excessive pressures to succeed and sexual difficulties
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What is a principal cost to men of remaining tied to gender roles.
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are in a state of transition and will likely remain that way for some time to come.
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Traditional gender roles
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also carry the responsibilities of parent and spouse.
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Typically, if women do strive toward career aspirations, they
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passivity and submissiveness
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Which of the following is a typical feminine stereotype?
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knows she can achieve independence, exhibit strength, and succeed while at times being dependent and in need of nurturing.
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Ideally, a successful and independent woman
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Androgyny
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What is the alternative to living according to a stereotype?
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The blending of typical male and female personality traits and behaviors in the same person
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Androgyny refers to?
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breast feeding and blood transfusions
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The World Health Organization claims that WHAT account(s) for three percent of HIV transmissions.
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Sensual experiences involve the enjoyment of all of our senses and can be enjoyed separately from sexual experiences.
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The following is true about sensuality:
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Intimacy
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WHAT can be conceived of as a close emotional relationship characterized by a deep level of caring for another person.
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AIDS: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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The last stage of a disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, which attacks and weakens the body's natural immune system, is?
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"Opportunistic" infections or diseases
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People who have AIDS are vulnerable to serious illnesses that would not be a threat to anyone whose immune system was functioning normally. These illnesses are referred to as
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Consistent use of condoms and spermicidal barriers is 100% effective in preventing HIV or other STDs.
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As a measure to prevent the spread of AIDS, the following is not true:
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Restricting to one lover and not injecting drugs in yourself
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What is considered to be "safer" behavior when attempting to protect yourself against contracting AIDS?
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means assuming responsibility for yourself, taking into consideration how others are affected by your choice.
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Designing a personal and meaningful set of sexual ethics
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Women
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The largest growth in HIV infection is occurring among?
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25
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about WHAT% of those infected with HIV are unaware of their status.
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Integrating the constantly changing work world with internal changes, such as expectations, needs, motivation, values and interest.
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Deciding on a career involves what?
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Your lives work spanning a period of time and involving one or several job changes
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Your career can be thought of as?
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Motivation and achievement, Attitudes about occupations, abilities, interests, values, self-concept
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What factors have been shown to be important in determining a person's occupational decision-making process?
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negative self-attitude has little influence on making appropriate vocational decisions.
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All of the following are true concerning the relationship of self-concept to vocational decision-making except:
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Are not likely to envision them in a meaningful or important job
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People with poor self-concept?
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Work values
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Helping others, influencing people, finding meaning, prestige, status, friendships, creativity, recognition, adventure, and challenge are examples of?
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There are six work personality types
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Holland's theory is based on the assumption that?
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Artistic
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Theresa is getting a degree in fine arts. She is a non-conformist, dressing to suit her personality, and expresses her personality by writing poetry and taking drama classes at the local community theater. According to Holland, Theresa has the following type of personality:
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Social
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Roger is a friendly, enthusiastic, outgoing individual. People seek him out with their problems because they perceive Roger to understand, supportive and caring. In fact, he often takes on the role of counselor when dealing with others. According to Holland, Roger has the following type of personality:
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"Free time"
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The most appropriate description of leisure time is?
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When out networks of social relationships is lacking or when there are strains on their relationship
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Loneliness is often the result of?
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A state that we choose for ourselves that allow us to make time to be ourselves to discover who we are and to renew ourselves
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According to the Coreys, solitude can be considered?
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Being alone
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The Coreys distinguish between loneliness and what?
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We may fear that we will alienate others if we ask for private time
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Why do many of us fail to experience solitude?
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Make us needlessly lonely by refusing to reach out to others
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Paradoxically, out of fear of rejection and loneliness, we may what?
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Universal
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According to Phil Zimbardo, shyness is an experience that is what?
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Need to be cured
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Zimbardo's research on shyness indicates that shyness does not what?
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Adolescence
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WHAT often feel that they are all alone in their world, that they are the first ones to have had the feelings they do, and that they are separated from others by some abnormality.
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enjoy their quiet time relaxing
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According to counselors who work with children, many of them suffer from stress and have "overstuffed" lives. These children tend to do all of the following except
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Existential loneliness
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As people age and move closer to death, they tend to become increasingly aware that their world will disappear and that others cannot accompany them to their final destiny. This experience is best described as?
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can act as a catalyst in the search for meaning in life.
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The awareness of death
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We fear leaving behind those we love, losing ourselves, and coping with the humiliation or indignity or a painful or long death
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Death is feared because?
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Assisted Suicide
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WHAT involves providing lethal means to cause a person's death, with the individual performing the act that ends his or her own life.
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Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance
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The typical sequence in the stages of dying, according to Kübler-Ross, is
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are neat, compartmentalized stages and every person passes through them in an orderly fashion.
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Kübler-Ross emphasizes that the stages of dying
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Denial
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When Bill first found out he had cancer and only about a year to live, his first reaction was in keeping with Kübler-Ross's first stage of dying, which is?
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Bargaining
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The third stage of dying as theorized by Kübler-Ross, basically an attempt to postpone the inevitable end, is
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encouraging them to talk about their feelings and make final plans.
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The following tactic would be helpful to use when dealing with a dying person who is depressed
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hospice movement.
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The trend toward more direct involvement in the care for the dying of significant others is exemplified in the
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Make a life for them and hold on to resentment
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In the case of divorce, once the two persons have finished their grieving, they can begin to?
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We have to put ourselves before other people and/or the common good
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Bellah and his associates assert that the core problem with our society is that?
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Who am I? Where am I going? and Why?
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Our search for identity involves asking the key existential questions, none of which has an easy or definite answer what are those questions?
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We are actively searching for meaning trying to make sense of the works in which we find ourselves
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The existential question "Why?" implies that we are?
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How we respond to racism in our own selves
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Although we may not be responsible for systematic racism, we are responsible for?
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Viktor Frankl
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The European psychiatrist who dedicated his professional life to the study of meaning in life is?
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Search for Purpose
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According to Frankl, what distinguishes us as humans is our?
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The fundamental beliefs, attitudes and values that govern a person's behavior
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A philosophy of life is made up of?
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will be able to respect values of others that may differ from your own
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Being secure about your values implies that you
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A journey an odyssey, quest, pilgrimage, process, a wandering or movement, an expedition into the meaning of life
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Spirituality is often viewed as?
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agree
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The Corey's WHAT with the Dalai Lama's position that religious teachings should be evaluated by the degree to which the faithful act more loving toward others
