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meagbuch · **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.

kusterl · **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.