BURNS PEDIATRIC CORE REVIEW QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔1. A parent who encourages competitiveness in a child who excels at a single sport
but not in others may
also encourage a sense of
a. competence.
b. insecurity.
c. significance.
d. worthiness. - ✔✔ANS: B
Children who gain praise for external measures, such as performance of a sport, may
end up unduly
comparing themselves with others and feel insecure, inferior, and inadequate, even as
they continue to
excel in this sport. Competence comes from feeling capable and confident and able to
approach new
tasks. Significance comes from having a sense of belonging and being accepted
unconditionally
✔✔this
child's self-worth is dependent on performance in a sport. Worthiness is based on an
understanding of
having a purpose in life and is also unconditional. - ✔✔
✔✔2. The parent of a 15-year-old male is concerned that he refuses to eat meals with
the family and
consumes only protein drinks. The adolescent is on the track team at school and
spends much of his
time training and working out. The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner notes that
his weight and
BMI have dropped from the 20th percentile to the 3rd percentile in the past year. This
child most
likely has a problem with
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔1. A parent who encourages competitiveness in a child who excels at a single sport
but not in others may
also encourage a sense of
a. competence.
b. insecurity.
c. significance.
d. worthiness. - ✔✔ANS: B
Children who gain praise for external measures, such as performance of a sport, may
end up unduly
comparing themselves with others and feel insecure, inferior, and inadequate, even as
they continue to
excel in this sport. Competence comes from feeling capable and confident and able to
approach new
tasks. Significance comes from having a sense of belonging and being accepted
unconditionally
✔✔this
child's self-worth is dependent on performance in a sport. Worthiness is based on an
understanding of
having a purpose in life and is also unconditional. - ✔✔
✔✔2. The parent of a 15-year-old male is concerned that he refuses to eat meals with
the family and
consumes only protein drinks. The adolescent is on the track team at school and
spends much of his
time training and working out. The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner notes that
his weight and
BMI have dropped from the 20th percentile to the 3rd percentile in the past year. This
child most
likely has a problem with
