JOURNEY ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND
HEALTH PROMOTION 7TH EDITION 2025
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The key to understanding how a client responds to illness is understanding his or her:
A. Culture
B. Response to aging
C. Response to stress
D. Birth order
Culture
Which of the following is a similarity found in all cultures?
A. Family size
B. Social controls
C. Political organization
D. Health practices
B. Social controls
The most important symbol in a culture is:
A. Art
B. Language
C. Dress
D. Food
B. Language
Which of the following statements is true?
A. Elderly individuals only seek medical treatment if illw
B. Religious beliefs are the only influence on health care practices
C. knowing a persons culture may help you understand his/her response to illness
D. race is the only predictor of disease and life expectancy
C. knowing a persons culture may help you understand his/her response to illness
Cultural competence requires that the health care worker (select all that apply):
A. Be critical of all aspects of minority cultural groups
B. Take on and practice the client's culture
C. Learn about diverse cultures
D. Engage in continuous self-evaluation
C. Learn about diverse cultures
D. Engage in continuous self-evaluation
Spirituality can be defined as:
A. how an individual finds meaning or purpose in his/her life
,B. specific type of worship
C. organized practice with rituals and symbols
D. specific system of beliefs
how an individual finds meaning or purpose in his/her life
Margaret Giddings, the senior member of her family, wants to know how she can best protect her
family from illness. The nurse could instruct her to have them:
A. Have periodic health screenings
B. Decrease exercise
C. Ignore periodic stress
D. Fortify their diet with saturated fats
Have periodic health screenings
Angie has a 2-year-old child and asks how she can instill good discipline. You would tell her to:
A. Disregard temper tantrums
B. Offer several choices
C. Provide unsupervised play periods
D. Calmly say no to change behavior
C. Provide unsupervised play periods
A functional family is one that:
A. Compares and contrasts the accomplishments of its members
B. Frowns upon low achievers
C. Fosters growth and development
D. Isolates disruptive members
C. Fosters growth and development
A middle-aged couple was admitted to the hospital after a motor vehicle accident. Two days later, the
husband expired. While observing a staff member offering grief support, which of the following
actions is noted to be correct?
A. She states that "maybe your husband was driving too fast."
B. She tells the patient to "act strong."
C. She states that "death happens to everyone at some time."
D. She says little but stays with the patient.
D. She says little but stays with the patient.
Mary, age 30, just experienced the untimely death of her father. You might expect her to immediately
exhibit feelings of:
A. Ambivalence
B. Anger
C. Shock
D. Euphoria
, C. Shock
Two common bonds that hold a family together are:
A. Attachment and commitment
B. Aggression and firmness
C. Persuasion and fortitude
D. Love and hate
Attachment and commitment
Which of the following is a stage of family development?
A. Denial
B. Withdrawal
C. Negativism
D. Reproduction
D. Reproduction
In a laissez-faire-type family pattern, 9-year-old Jane would:
A. Have all decisions reviewed and modified
B. Be able to participate in decision-making
C. Be used to her parents making all the decisions
D. Have complete freedom in making all decisions
D. Have complete freedom in making all decision
A function basic to all families is the need to:
A. Judge members
B. Punish members
C. Protect members
D. Direct members
C. Protect members
An example of a break in family structure is:
A. Illness
B. Remarriage
C. Divorce
D. Unemployment
C. Divorce
Reproduction provides the family with a means of:
A. Division
B. Readiness
C. Structure
D. Survival
D. Survival
HEALTH PROMOTION 7TH EDITION 2025
_____________________________________________________________________________________
The key to understanding how a client responds to illness is understanding his or her:
A. Culture
B. Response to aging
C. Response to stress
D. Birth order
Culture
Which of the following is a similarity found in all cultures?
A. Family size
B. Social controls
C. Political organization
D. Health practices
B. Social controls
The most important symbol in a culture is:
A. Art
B. Language
C. Dress
D. Food
B. Language
Which of the following statements is true?
A. Elderly individuals only seek medical treatment if illw
B. Religious beliefs are the only influence on health care practices
C. knowing a persons culture may help you understand his/her response to illness
D. race is the only predictor of disease and life expectancy
C. knowing a persons culture may help you understand his/her response to illness
Cultural competence requires that the health care worker (select all that apply):
A. Be critical of all aspects of minority cultural groups
B. Take on and practice the client's culture
C. Learn about diverse cultures
D. Engage in continuous self-evaluation
C. Learn about diverse cultures
D. Engage in continuous self-evaluation
Spirituality can be defined as:
A. how an individual finds meaning or purpose in his/her life
,B. specific type of worship
C. organized practice with rituals and symbols
D. specific system of beliefs
how an individual finds meaning or purpose in his/her life
Margaret Giddings, the senior member of her family, wants to know how she can best protect her
family from illness. The nurse could instruct her to have them:
A. Have periodic health screenings
B. Decrease exercise
C. Ignore periodic stress
D. Fortify their diet with saturated fats
Have periodic health screenings
Angie has a 2-year-old child and asks how she can instill good discipline. You would tell her to:
A. Disregard temper tantrums
B. Offer several choices
C. Provide unsupervised play periods
D. Calmly say no to change behavior
C. Provide unsupervised play periods
A functional family is one that:
A. Compares and contrasts the accomplishments of its members
B. Frowns upon low achievers
C. Fosters growth and development
D. Isolates disruptive members
C. Fosters growth and development
A middle-aged couple was admitted to the hospital after a motor vehicle accident. Two days later, the
husband expired. While observing a staff member offering grief support, which of the following
actions is noted to be correct?
A. She states that "maybe your husband was driving too fast."
B. She tells the patient to "act strong."
C. She states that "death happens to everyone at some time."
D. She says little but stays with the patient.
D. She says little but stays with the patient.
Mary, age 30, just experienced the untimely death of her father. You might expect her to immediately
exhibit feelings of:
A. Ambivalence
B. Anger
C. Shock
D. Euphoria
, C. Shock
Two common bonds that hold a family together are:
A. Attachment and commitment
B. Aggression and firmness
C. Persuasion and fortitude
D. Love and hate
Attachment and commitment
Which of the following is a stage of family development?
A. Denial
B. Withdrawal
C. Negativism
D. Reproduction
D. Reproduction
In a laissez-faire-type family pattern, 9-year-old Jane would:
A. Have all decisions reviewed and modified
B. Be able to participate in decision-making
C. Be used to her parents making all the decisions
D. Have complete freedom in making all decisions
D. Have complete freedom in making all decision
A function basic to all families is the need to:
A. Judge members
B. Punish members
C. Protect members
D. Direct members
C. Protect members
An example of a break in family structure is:
A. Illness
B. Remarriage
C. Divorce
D. Unemployment
C. Divorce
Reproduction provides the family with a means of:
A. Division
B. Readiness
C. Structure
D. Survival
D. Survival
