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A depressed, suicidal client is scheduled for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which requires consent. Legally, who should sign the consent for this treatment?
 
  A) A member of the treatment team
  B) The client
  C) The client's spouse
  D) The psychiatrist

Question 2

A client with major depression visits the mental health clinic and tells the nurse that he has recently started smoking marijuana. The nurse determines that the manifestation of the client's co-occurring disorder is:
 
  A) Primary mental illness with subsequent substance abuse.
  B) Primary substance abuse disorder with psychopathologic sequelae.
  C) Dual primary diagnoses.
  D) A common etiology.


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janeli

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Reply #1 on: Jul 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B
Feedback: The client has the right to sign (or refuse to sign) the consent; the others do not have the legal right to sign for the client.

Answer to Question 2

A


ARLKQ

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Reply 2 on: Jul 19, 2018
Wow, this really help

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:D TYSM

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