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NR-603 Advanced Clinical Diagnosis and Practice Across the Lifespan Practicum Week 1 Summary Notes Chapter 9,84,188,194 & 196 NR-603 Advanced Clinical Diagnosis and Practice Across the Lifespan ... Practicum Week 1 Summary Notes Chapter 9,84,188,194 & 196 Chapter 9: Developmental Issues: Adolescence: • Safety issues are substance use and abuse, cigarette smoking, homicide, suicide, and firearms. Early Adolescence: 11-14. • Challenge authority, experience wide mood swings, reject the activities and ideation of childhood, can be argumentative or disobedient, and desire more privacy. • Tremendous physical growth that is rapid, secondary sex characteristics and puberty accompany preoccupation with normal body changes such as menses or nocturnal emissions. • Peer groups may become more important than parental influence. • Health promotion should focus on immediate impact of behaviors. • Risk reduction related to substance use, tobacco use, and sexual activity (pregnancy, STIs), along with violence and injury prevention. Middle Adolescence: 15-17. • Strongly influences by peer groups. • Physical growth slows for females but continues for males and puberty is typically completed during this stage. • Age of experimentation with sex, drugs, different types of friends, and risk taking behaviors. [Show More]

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