When Providing Health Teaching for Middle Adolescents,the Health-Care Worker Should

question 1

Multiple Choice

When providing health teaching for middle adolescents,the health-care worker should recognize that middle adolescents:

• A) have adequate opportunities to make decisions based on past experiences.
• B) develop the ability to demonstrate deductive reasoning.
• C) accept parents' beliefs as their own.
• D) have beliefs that become more concrete and founded in observing religious customs.

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Definitions:

Munchhausen's Syndrome

A psychiatric disorder wherein an individual deliberately feigns or induces illness in themselves for attention, sympathy, or other emotional gain.

Somatic Symptom

A physical symptom that may have no identifiable physical cause but is related to psychological distress.

Dissociative

Referring to a disruption or discontinuity in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior.

Psychotic

Relating to a severe mental disorder characterized by a disconnection from reality, often including delusions and hallucinations.