Establishing a therapeutic relationship with a client with a dissociative disorder may be more
difficult for the nurse than establishing a relationship with a psychotic client because the client with
a dissociative disorder
a. seems haughty, distant, and aloof.
b. has symptoms that may seem contrived.
c. seems too needy, overwhelming the nurse.
d. seeks enormous amounts of secondary gain.
Question 2
A client tells the nurse she had psychotherapy weekly for 3 years.
The client states the therapist used
the techniques of free association, dream analysis, and facilitation of awareness of transference
feelings to help her understand unconscious processes and foster personality change. The nurse can
determine that the client was treated with
a. short-term dynamic psychotherapy.
b. transactional analysis.
c. cognitive therapy.
d. psychoanalysis.