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Counseling Strategies for Tweens/Teens with Hearing Loss, Presented in Partnership with the Educational Audiology Association

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1.  A teen's frontal cortex is developing
  1. More white matter
  2. More gray matter
  3. More white and gray matter
  4. More blue tint
2.  Binocular vision is
  1. a tendency to look at circumstances as more important than they really are
  2. a common thinking error for teens
  3. Both A & B
  4. None of the above
3.  Our emotions are mediated by:
  1. gray matter
  2. the limbic system
  3. pruning and organizing
  4. white matter
4.  Which of the following is not a developmental question for adolescents?
  1. What kind of person am I?
  2. How do I fit in?
  3. Why is trust important?
  4. How do I create distance yet stay connected with adults?
5.  Trust is positively correlated to:
  1. patients following our recommendations
  2. arriving on time for appointments
  3. patient satisfaction
  4. Both A and B
6.  Brain researchers report that the best way for teens to understand their own development is through:
  1. book clubs
  2. conversations with adults
  3. black-and-white thinking
  4. a reluctance to self-identify
7.  A teen's feelings are:
  1. usually impossible to understand
  2. a noisy byproduct of thinking
  3. managed by the frontal cortex
  4. an integral part of the conversation
8.  When engaged in conversation with teens, it is recommended we discuss:
  1. something they want to talk about
  2. something they know more about than we do
  3. something that draws out their own concerns, reactions, moral dilemmas
  4. all of the above
9.  Talking out one's problems to a receptive listener:
  1. generally helps make things more clear
  2. is as effective for some as taking drugs such as SSRI (selective seratonin reuptake inhibitors)
  3. Both A and B
  4. None of the above
10.  Audiologists are in a unique position to support teens with hearing loss by
  1. offering opportunities for adult discussions about their challenges
  2. offering advice at every opportunity
  3. keeping conversations short and productive using terminator comments
  4. dominating most of the talk time