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KimWrice

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An admission note describes a patient as being lively, excessively emotional, attention seeking, and superficial.. The patient's history reveals stormy relationships with friends and lovers.
 
  The patient only seems comfortable when the focus of attention and becomes anxious when the focus changes. The nurse anticipates that the DSM-IV-TR diagnosis that is being considered is _____ personality disorder. a. paranoid
  b. antisocial
  c. histrionic
  d. obsessive-compulsive

Question 2

A client engages in frequent temper tantrums that usually result in her parents giving in to her demands. The client's tantrum resolves when she gets her way. A nurse identifies that the parents' behavior is being affected by the client's behavior.
 
  In this case, the parent's behavior is being:
  A) Shaped.
  B) Modeled.
  C) Positively reinforced.
  D) Negatively reinforced.



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Answer to Question 1

C
The features described most closely correspond with histrionic personality disorder, a cluster B disorder that includes the behaviors displayed by this patient in addition to behaviors that include seductiveness, being unsympathetic, and being manipulative.

Answer to Question 2

D



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