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rachel9 · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

A 16-year-old boy confides to a nurse that he has been sexually experimenting with a male peer. He reports feeling ambivalent about the encounters and wonders if he is gay. Which is the most appropriate response by the nurse?

A) This phase of your development includes experimentation. It doesn't necessarily mean it's a lifelong commitment.
B) After you've had a homosexual experience, it means you can never be considered exclusively heterosexual.
C) There's nothing to be ashamed about. It's okay to be homosexual.
D) You should look for a nice girl to date.

Question 2

A psychiatric nurse leads a supportive-therapeutic group in a psychiatric unit. It is an open group and clients come and go from the group as they are admitted and discharged from the unit.

Members discuss unresolved issues and ways to cope with stress in their lives. One evening, when the group was breaking up, the psychiatric nurse heard one client say to another, I never thought that other people had the same problems that I have. Which of Yalom's curative factors does this statement represent?
A) Catharsis
B) Group cohesiveness
C) Universality
D) Imitative behavior