A client with depression has not been attending group therapy sessions but has been able to meet with visitors, eat meals, and watch television. He states, I have a brain illnessa chemical imbalance. I have no control over my behavior.
I'll just have to wait until the medications kick in. Which is the appropriate nursing response to this client's comments?
A) In addition to biological factors, a complex interplay of environmental and interpersonal events contributes to the onset and maintenance of depression.
B) Given this is the 'decade of the brain,' you are correct in saying that biological factors cause depression.
C) Biological factors have been shown to exert the most influence in the development of mental illness.
D) Researchers have been unable to adequately demonstrate the link between nature (biology and genetics) and nurture (environment).
Question 2
A nurse is interviewing a newly admitted client. The nurse understands that the client's low self-esteem may have occurred in the identity versus role confusion stage because of:
A) Regret over life choices.
B) Lack of personal concern for others.
C) Inconsistent, overly harsh, or absent discipline.
D) Parental labeling of the child as good or bad.
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