Author Question: The nurse observes an elderly client teaching an adolescent how to crochet a pot holder. The nurse ... (Read 88 times)

viki · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

The nurse observes an elderly client teaching an adolescent how to crochet a pot holder. The nurse evaluates this behavior as evidence of resolution of Erickson's developmental stage of what?

A) Trust vs. mistrust
B) Initiative vs. guilt
C) Industry vs. inferiority
D) Generativity vs. stagnation

Question 2

When assessing a client from a Freudian developmental perspective, the nurse determines that he is functioning in the latency stage based on which of the following behaviors?

A) He frequently bites the other children at preschool.
B) He has not yet developed adequate bowel control.
C) He is beginning to develop inner control over aggressive impulses.
D) He has developed the capacity for object relations.

tkempin · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: D
The ability to teach and help others reveals progression through the developmental stage of generativity (in which individuals are industrious and offer themselves to society) vs. stagnation (characterized by introversion and lack of outward connection with others).

Answer to Question 2

Ans: C
The latency stage, according to Freud, is the stage in which the child is beginning to develop internal control over aggressive impulses.