Pediatric Nursing Q 173
Hannah, age 12, is 7 months pregnant. When teaching parenting skills to an adolescent, the nurse knows that which teaching strategy is least effective?
A. Providing a one-on-one demonstration and requesting a return demonstration, using a live infant model
B. Initiating a teenage parent support group with first and second-time mothers
C. Using audiovisual aids that show discussions of feelings and skills
D. Providing age-appropriate reading materials
Correct Answer: D. Providing age-appropriate reading materials.
Because adolescents absorb less information through reading, providing age-appropriate reading materials is the least effective way to teach parenting skills to an adolescent. The Adolescent Family Life (AFL) demonstration projects, organized through the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs (OAPP), are aimed to support young families through social support and medical care.
Option A: Adding a structured, comprehensive parenting curriculum to an AFL-funded teen-tot model would increase parenting self-esteem and reduce parenting attributes associated with child maltreatment, maternal depression, and repeat pregnancy over a 36-month follow-up.
Option B: The AFL funding required programs to deliver 10 core services, including pregnancy testing, adoption counseling, preventive and prenatal referrals for teens, nutritional counseling, well infant care, sexually transmitted infection screening, family life counseling, educational or vocational services, mental health services, and referrals for family planning.
Option C: The other options engage more than one of the senses and therefore serve as effective teaching strategies. On the basis of competency learning principles, the intervention used informational lectures, vignette discussions, reflection, and interactive “practice” activities.