Which Types of Adoption Studies Should a Nurse Recognize as Providing

question 10

Multiple Choice

Which types of adoption studies should a nurse recognize as providing useful information for the psychiatric community?

• A) Studies in which children with mentally ill biological parents are raised by adoptive parents who were mentally healthy
• B) Studies in which children with mentally healthy biological parents are raised by adoptive parents who were mentally ill
• C) Studies in which monozygotic twins from mentally ill parents were raised separately by different adoptive parents
• D) Studies in which monozygotic twins were raised together by mentally ill biological parents
• E) All of the above

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