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javeds

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Which situation demonstrates the use of primary care related to crisis intervention?
 
  a. Implementing suicide precautions for a patient with depression.
  b. Teaching stress reduction techniques to a beginning student nurse.
  c. Assessing coping strategies used by a patient who has attempted suicide.
  d. Referring a patient with schizophrenia to a partial hospitalization program.

Question 2

A woman says, I can't take it anymore Last year my husband had an affair and now we don't communicate. Three months ago, I found a lump in my breast. Yesterday my daughter said she's quitting college and moving in with her boyfriend.
 
  Which issue should be the focus for crisis intervention?
 
  a. Possible mastectomy
  b. Disordered family communication
  c. Effects of the husband's infidelity
  d. Coping with the reaction to the daughter's events



Tabitha_2016

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B
Primary crisis intervention promotes mental health and reduces mental illness. The incorrect options are examples of secondary or tertiary intervention.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
The focus of crisis intervention is on the most recent problemthe straw that broke the camel's back. The patient has coped with the breast lesion, the husband's infidelity, and the disordered communication. Disequilibrium occurs only with the introduction of the daughter leaving college and moving.



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