The Nurse Assessing a School-Aged Child with Separation Anxiety Disorder

The nurse assessing a school-aged child with separation anxiety disorder (SAD) will most likely find that the child has been exhibiting which of the following behaviors?

A) aggression toward other children and especially any siblings
B) refusing to eat in what seems to be an effort to get attention
C) exhibiting complaints of stomachaches, headaches, nausea, vomiting, and low-grade fevers without any physiological cause
D) refusing to leave home and sometimes even refusing to leave the bedroom and familiar belongings for days or even weeks at a time