A 13-Year-Old Client's Father Has Recently Been Deployed to Afghanistan

Multiple Choice

A 13-year-old client's father has recently been deployed to Afghanistan. Since deployment, the client has begun to participate in isolative behaviors, truancy, vandalism, and fighting. The pediatric nurse practitioner should identify this behavior with which adjustment disorder?

A) An adjustment disorder with anxiety
B) An adjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct
C) An adjustment disorder with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct
D) An adjustment disorder unspecified