Baby Brenda Is an Anxious, Emotionally Reactive Child with a Reduced

question 75

Multiple Choice

Baby Brenda is an anxious, emotionally reactive child with a reduced capacity for regulating emotion. Brenda's inability to learn to calm herself may be a result of parents who

• A) do not intervene when she is agitated, but rather let her "tough it out" on her own.
• B) wait to intervene until she has become extremely agitated.
• C) read and respond contingently and sympathetically to her emotional cues.
• D) attempt to intervene before she becomes agitated in any way.

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