The psychiatric-mental health nurse is employed in a community mental health center that uses a neurobiological theoretical perspective to guide treatment.
The nurse understands that the neurobiological principle that supports the use of counseling and therapy is that these treatment modalities: A) Increase the client's capacity for self-discovery of unconscious personality components.
B) Allow for reinforcement of desirable thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
C) Create changes through learning that in turn create changes in neuronal functioning.
D) Encourage completion of developmental tasks that were not successfully completed earlier in life.
Question 2
The client's spouse is verbalizing feelings of guilt and asks the cause of the client's mental illness. What is the nurse's correct response?
A) Mental illness is the result of a brain disorder..
B) No one really knows the cause of mental illness..
C) Why do you think the mental illness occurred?
D) Sometimes people just let their problems make themselves sick..
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