How can chronic illness and frequent hospitalization 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
Development of identity is the task of the adolescent. Inadequacy and inferiority refer to the school-age period. Parental attachment is a task of the infant. Development of imagination occurs in the preschool period.
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