Author Question: As an advanced practice psychiatric nurse, you are treating a 19-year-old female college freshman ... (Read 310 times)

penguins · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

As an advanced practice psychiatric nurse, you are treating a 19-year-old female college freshman for borderline personality disorder. Her roommate joins a sorority and begins packing to move into the sorority house.

As a result of the diagnosis's essential features, you can expect this client to exhibit: a. strange ritualistic behavior
b. preoccupation with cleanliness, order, and perfectionism
c. frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
d. remission of the disorder due to decreased level of stress

Question 2

An adolescent has been hospitalized after telling the mother, I can't stand all the arguing between Dad and me; I just want to die and be away from all the yelling..

The unit nurse manager expects the patient's psychiatric health provider will recommend _____ therapy. a. group
b. family
c. social skills
d. short-term individual

at · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C
The nurse would expect the client to exhibit frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. The client would feel abandoned because the roommate is leaving to move into the sorority house.

Answer to Question 2

B
Family therapy is designed to address the dysfunctional interactions among family members.