In understanding a client's presentation of PTSD after an assault, the counselor conducted an assessment asking a variety of questions about the client's family history of health and psychological disorders, family and support networks, coping skills, and experiences with current and past trauma and abuse. What model is guiding the assessment? Multiple Choice medical model learning model vulnerability-stress model cognitive model
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Post-traumatic stress of POWs. Psychological Assessment (Mar. 1995 ) published the results of a study of World War II aviators captured by German forces after having been shot down. Having located a total of 239 World War II aviator POW survivors, the researchers asked each veteran to participate in the study; 33 responded to the letter of invitation. Each of the 33 POW survivors was administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, one component of which measures level of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). [Note: The higher the score, the higher is the level of PTSD.] The aviators produced a mean PTSD score of $\bar{x}=9.00$ and a standard deviation of $s=9.32$. Conduct a test to determine if the true mean PTSD score for all World War II aviator POWS is less than 16. [Note: The value 16 represents the mean PTSD score established for Vietnam POWS.] Use $\alpha=.10$.
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