Author Question: The nurse is assessing a 12-year-old child's risk for developing mental health problems. To assess ... (Read 80 times)

ec501234 · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

The nurse is assessing a 12-year-old child's risk for developing mental health problems. To assess protective factors, the nurse should ask:

A) How good do you think you are at solving problems?
B) Do you ever have thoughts of harming yourself?
C) Are you resilient?
D) How often do you get sick during the school year?

Question 2

A nurse is working as part of an interdisciplinary treatment team for a client diagnosed with a mental illness and substance abuse disorder.

As part of the recovery process, which of the following would be most important for the team to do initially?
A) Provide a series of short-term hospitalizations that apply leverage to pressure the client into adhering to a prescribed treatment regimen.
B) Establish rules that will enhance the client's recognition of staff as authority figures who know what is best for the client's care and well-being.
C) Use heavy confrontation, intense emotional pressure, and discouragement of the use of medications since all medications have the potential to be addictive.
D) Provide immediate help with a situational crisis the client is experiencing to promote trust in the client and have the client buy into the treatment process.