Peter Got Along Quite Well as a Child, but in Adolescence

question 41

Multiple Choice

Peter got along quite well as a child, but in adolescence he associated with a "bad" crowd, took drugs, and suffered academically. At 21 years of age, he appears to have put aside these behaviors and has successfully returned to college. Peter's development is following which of the five adolescent developmental pathways described in the text?

• A)Unstable adaptation
• B)Unstable maladaptation
• C)Decline of adaptation
• D)Temporal maladaptation

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