How can chronic illness and frequent hospitalizations affect the psychosocial development of a toddler?
a. They can create a distortion or differentiation of self from parent.
b. They can interfere with the development of autonomy.
c. They can interfere with the acquisition of language, fine motor, and self-care
skills.
d. They can create feelings of inadequacy.
B
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A The infant with a chronic illness may have distortion of differentiation of self
from parents.
B Chronic illness may interfere in the development of autonomy, which is the
major psychosocial task of the toddler.
C Chronic illness with frequent hospitalizations can inhibit the acquisition of
language, motor, and self-care skills in the preschool-age child.
D Feelings of inadequacy and inferiority can occur if independence is compromised
by chronic illness in the school-age child.
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