A 15-year-old female client and her mother come to the primary health care provider’s office for the client’s annual physical examination. The office nurse collects the client’s history. Her mother reports that her artistic and talented daughter has become very moody, irritable, and often agitated over the past 6 months. She states that her daughter is failing the 10th grade and her artwork has become “very dark” by focusing only on death and pain. The client stays in her room with the door locked after school and spends numerous hours on various electronic devices. During a confidential nursing interview without her mother, the client states that her parents are very controlling and unreasonably strict because they “don’t understand the needs of teenagers today.” They do not let her have fun with her friends and she has sneaked out of the house to meet them on several occasions. The client states that she feels depressed most of the time. She plans to move out of her parents’ house to live with her boyfriend next year. What questions would the nurse ask the client at this time to obtain additional assessment information? Select all that appl
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