How can chronic illness and frequent hospitalizations affect the psychosocial development of an adolescent?

a. They can lead to feelings of inadequacy.
b. They can interfere with parental attachment.
c. They can block the development of identity.
d. They can prevent the development of imagination.


C
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A Inadequacy and inferiority refer to the school-age period.
B Parental attachment is a task of the infant.
C Development of identity is the task of the adolescent.
D Development of imagination occurs in the preschool period.

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