A nurse is caring for two clients: one with schizoid personality disorder and another with avoidant personality disorder. What is the essential difference between schizoid and avoidant personality disorders?
A) Both find their interpersonal relationships lacking. Individuals with avoidant personality disorder desire intimacy but fear it, while persons with schizoid personality disorder prefer to be alone.
B) Individuals with schizoid personality disorder exhibit odd, bizarre, and eccentric behavior, while persons with avoidant personality disorder are generally normal in appearance.
C) Persons with avoidant personality disorder are more eccentric, while those with schizoid personality disorder are dull and vacant.
D) Individuals with schizoid personality disorder have a history of psychotic thought processes, while persons with avoidant personality disorder remain based in reality.
Question 2
A committee is formed to increase the public's understanding that mental health is essential to overall health. A nurse would expect that the focus of this group's work would be:
a. improving access to quality care that is culturally competent.
b. protecting and enhancing the rights of people with mental illness.
c. developing and implementing integrated electronic health record and personal health information systems.
d. collaborating with the emergency department to treat mental health problems with the same urgency as physical health problems.
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