Which statement is true of planning the timing for the use of ...

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Which statement is true of planning the timing for the use of confrontation?
 
  a. Confrontation should never be used during the orientation phase of the relationship.
  b. Confrontation is useful during the working phase to focus on specific patient discrepancies.
  c. Confront patients with their limitations early in the relationship and with their assets later in therapy.
  d. Confront patients when other therapeutic action dimensions have proven ineffective.

Question 2

A client responds to an advertisement in a local newspaper that is soliciting subjects for a research program to investigate effective ways to stop smoking.
 
  A research nurse explains to the client that she will be assigned to a group that will use a reciprocal inhibition technique. Which exercise is based on reciprocal inhibition?
  A) Before she can smoke, she must first take a half-hour walk.
  B) When she has the urge to smoke, she is to imagine herself being short of breath.
  C) She will be paid 1 for each cigarette she does not smoke and must forfeit 2 for each cigarette that she does smoke.
  D) When she has the urge to smoke, she must first hold her breath to a count of 30 and then perform a rhythmic breathing exercise to a count of 100.

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Answer to Question 1

B
Confrontation, when posed as an observation of incongruent behavior, can be used infrequently during the orientation phase of the relationship, but it is more useful during the working stage to expand the patient's awareness and to help him or her move to a higher level of functioning. The remaining options are not true statements.

Answer to Question 2

D