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soccerdreamer_17

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Lakisha is 11 and still urinates into her clothes or in her bed. Her father also wet the bed when he was a youth. The prognosis is good that Lakisha's problems will end without treatment. The disorder she best illustrates is ____.
 
  a. Tourette's disorder
 b. attention deficit disorder
  c. enuresis
 d. encopresis

Question 2

Research suggests that the most effective treatment for enuresis is to ____.
 
  a. ignore the problem and letting the child take responsibility for changing the behavior when he or she is ready
  b. increase the depth of sleep with sleeping pills and at the same time, decreasing the volume of urine with medication
 c. offer aversive conditioning to make the child associate shame and guilt with bed-wetting
 d. provide support to the parents and child by setting up reward systems or using a bedtime urine alarm



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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

d



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