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Tirant22 · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

A client is seeing a psychotherapist for treatment of arachnophobia. Her therapist begins a program of systematic desensitization. Which interventions would be included in this behavior-modification technique? Select all that apply.

A) Breathing exercises
B) Use of a 1-hour audiotape that describes being in a room full of spiders
C) A visit to an insect zoo with the psychotherapist
D) Self-paced computer program presenting progressively more anxiety-producing scenarios regarding spiders

Question 2

A teenager being treated for oppositional defiance behavior states: I wish my parents would stop treating me like an irresponsible child.. The nurse implements confrontation as a therapeutic technique when responding:

a. How can they treat you like an adult when you are only a teenager?
b. You want to be treated like an adult, but is it adult-like when you skip school?
c. Your parents have a legal responsibility to care for you until you are eighteen..
d. Your parents are worried about giving you more freedom than you can handle..

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

Answer to Question 1

A, C, D

Answer to Question 2

B
Confrontation is an expression by the nurse of discrepancies in the patient's behavior such as being irresponsible and untrustworthy while wanting to be treated like an adult. The remaining options are not confrontational since they are not identifying such discrepancies.