A Jilted College Student Is Admitted to a Mental Health

Multiple Choice

A jilted college student is admitted to a mental health unit following a suicide attempt and states, "No one will ever love a loser like me." According to Erikson's theory of personality development, a nurse should recognize that this client has a deficit in which developmental stage?

A) Trust versus mistrust
B) Initiative versus guilt
C) Intimacy versus isolation
D) Ego integrity versus despair