Author Question: Which situations would increase an individual's risk for ineffective coping related to stress? ... (Read 74 times)

danielfitts88 · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

Which situations would increase an individual's risk for ineffective coping related to stress? Select all that apply.

a. Being over 65 years of age
b. Being unmarried and female
c. Having been adopted as an infant
d. Having a history of chronic back pain
e. Being diagnosed with both depression and hypertension

Question 2

Which assessment observations will be most influential in determining whether a patient exhibiting signs of alcohol intoxication who was brought to the emergency room by friends will be involuntarily admitted for psychiatric evaluation?

Select all that apply.
a. The patient's earlier contact with a crisis hotline
b. Expressing a desire, to just drive myself home
c. Patient's admission that, I don't want to keep living like this.
d. Uncooperative and disrespectful behavior towards the hospital staff
e. Announcing that, my girlfriend will pay for leaving me for my best friend.

nekcihc358 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D, E
Risk factors may limit an individual's ability to cope or problem solve during stressful life events or situations. These may include the presence of concurrent or multiple biopsychoso-cial stressors, such as depression and hypertension, as well as chronic physical or psychologi-cal pain. The other options are not known to negatively impact an individual's ability to cope or problem solve.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C, E
The decision to admit this patient involuntarily is based on whether the person poses a danger to himself or herself, including sharing thoughts or threats of suicide, sharing a suicide plan, or actively using a weapon or situation to injure himself or herself; and/or whether the person poses a danger to others as evidenced by threatening another, brandishing a weapon, or dis-playing erratic or unpredictable behavior. The remaining options do not fulfill either of these conditions.