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A family seeks counseling at a community mental health center. The husband says to a nurse, Every time we start to discuss rules for the children, we get into shouting matches. We can't ever settle on anything. We just shout at each other.
 
  The nurse instructs the husband and wife to shout at each other for the next 2 weeks on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 7 P.M. This intervention is called:
  A) Reframing.
  B) Restructuring the family.
  C) Expressive psychotherapy.
  D) Paradoxical intervention.

Question 2

In order to accurately predict how the body absorbs, distributes, metabolizes, and eliminates psychotropic medications the nurse must be familiar with a medication's:
 
  a. half-life.
  b. side effects.
  c. pharmacokinetics.
  d. therapeutic dosage range.



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

C
Pharmacokinetics is the study of how the body affects a drug. It answers the question: how does the body get drugs to and from their intended target? Body functions such as absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination all are pharmacokinetics.



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