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Theories of Health Behavior Change Questions
Question 1 of 5
A patient says, Please dont share information about me with the other people. How should the nurse respond?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
As a nurse discharges a patient, the patient gives the nurse a card of appreciation made in an arts and crafts group. What is the nurses best action?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
A teenage patient defies the nurse's repeated requests to turn off the video game and go to sleep. The teen says angrily, 'You sound just like my mother at home!' and continues to play the video game. The nurse understands that this statement likely indicates
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Transference occurs when the client displaces onto the therapist attitudes and feelings that the client originally experienced in other relationships. Transference patterns are automatic and unconscious in the therapeutic relationship. The occurrence of transference does not indicate ineffective parenting or disciplinary practices, nor is it indicative of a disorder. Autonomy is developed much earlier in the toddler years.
Question 4 of 5
A client begins to take stock of his life and look into the future. The nurse assesses that this client is in which of Erikson's developmental stages?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Erikson's stage of integrity versus despair is when an adult begins to reflect on his or her life. Identity versus role confusion occurs in adolescence when the person is forming a sense of self and belonging. Integrity versus despair occurs in maturity; accepting responsibility for oneself and life is the corresponding task. Generativity versus stagnation occurs in middle adulthood, which includes the tasks of being creative and productive and establishing the next generation.
Question 5 of 5
Which one of the following is an important characteristic of an effective therapist-client relationship in individual psychotherapy?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Compatibility between the therapist and the client is required for therapy to be effective. The client must select a therapist whose theoretical beliefs and style of therapy are congruent with the client's needs and expectations of therapy. It is not required that the client and therapist be the same. The client's benefit is the most important consideration. The client also may have to try different therapists to find a good match.