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meagbuch

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on: Jul 19, 2018
A nurse working with a patient diagnosed with borderline personality disorder will need to consider therapeutic strategies for which likely patient characteristics? (Select all that apply.)
 
  a. Unpredictable mood shifts
  b. A strong sense of interdependence
  c. Impulsivity that leads to extreme risk taking
  d. Tendency to overreact to even minor criticism
  e. Hallucinations that may be either visual or auditory

Question 2

An adolescent who belongs to a neighborhood gang has been caught both lying and stealing by a parent.
 
  After psychiatric testing determines that the adolescent is able to adequately test reality and has no symptoms of a major psychiatric disorder, the most likely finding will be that the child's behavior demonstrates: a. healthy deviant.
  b. healthy conformist.
  c. unhealthy deviant.
  d. unhealthy conformist.


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kusterl

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Reply #1 on: Jul 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A, C, D
Features of borderline personality disorder include instability, impulsivity, hypersensitivity, self-destructive behavior, profound mood shifts, and unstable and intense interpersonal relationships. Forming healthy relationships and psychotic behaviors are not characteristic of borderline personality disorder.

Answer to Question 2

A
Alternative or deviant social behaviors are not necessarily indicative of illness.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 19, 2018
Gracias!

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Wow, this really help

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