While completing a rotation in a mental health facility, you are ...

[imowrer]

While completing a rotation in a mental health facility, you are observing a client who is becoming increasingly agitated.
 
  He begins yelling at other clients and then picks up a chair and throws it against a wall. You are asked to document what you witnessed. Which of the following would be the most appropriate documentation?
  A) Client is engaging in attention-seeking behavior and is argumentative and disruptive.
  B) Client is acting crazy by yelling at other clients and throwing objects.
  C) Client is displaying aggression including yelling at other clients and throwing a chair.
  D) Client is a psycho, is argumentative, aggressive, and disruptive.

Question 2

After having a conversation with a depressed client, a nurse is thinking about possible factors that may explain why the client is depressed. This nurse's thinking exemplifies which of the following?
 
  A) Attribution theory
  B) Assumption theory
  C) Dispositional theory
  D) Situational theory

[joshraies]

Answer to Question 1

Ans: C
Feedback:
Documentation and discussion of clients' actions must be objective, with concrete examples given to show evidence of what one means by a label (eg, aggressive). The medical record and the manner in which professionals speak about clients in clinical settings also can be hurtful and create negative attributions of certain clients that are then passed among staff members. Words like crazy, cuckoo, psycho, wacko, and nutso are just a few examples of terms that keep the stigma of mental illness alive. These words belittle and offend people with mental health problems.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: A
Feedback:
Regardless of the cause, people have a strong need to understand and explain what is going on in the world. A simple theory about how people explain things is called attribution theory. Attributions often arise from assumptions. Assumptions consist of mindsets so firmly established that they create powerful incentives within people or groups to act in certain ways and to explain things (or make attributions).