Child Psych

Answer: A - Studies show that CBT is less effective in treating Afro-American boys from low-income households than boys and girls from other family backgrounds. Parents in lower income Afro-American families tend to promote the use of physical aggression problem solving techniques. They do this through greater reliance on corporal punishment, as well as teaching their children to retaliate in response to verbal or physical aggression in others. Confrontations with aggressive peers further reinforce aggressive behavior in these children, in direct contrast to the CBT approach of relaxing and trying to use verbal negotiation.