A psychiatric nurse will recognize which action as demonstration ...

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A psychiatric nurse will recognize which action as demonstration of resistance behavior?
 
  a. Regularly referring to himself as a loser
  b. Becoming tearful during every therapy session about abuse
  c. Asking to postpone a therapy session until after visiting hours
  d. Consistently describing his drug use as starting a little while ago

Question 2

A 13-year-old client has a history of conduct disorder behaviors, including frequent fights at school, truancy, marijuana use, and legal troubles. The client also has a learning disability.
 
  A school nurse suspects that the client engages in fights to get suspended from school. By doing this, the client can avoid the discouragement and low self-esteem that comes from repeated failures. The nurse identifies which behavioral principle at work here?
  A) Classical conditioning
  B) Conditioned response
  C) Positive reinforcement
  D) Negative reinforcement

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Answer to Question 1

D
Resistance is the patient's reluctance or avoidance of verbalizing or experiencing troubling aspects of himself or herself. This is often caused by the patient's unwillingness to change when the need for change is recognized. The remaining options lack the needed reluctance to open communication seen with resistant behaviors.

Answer to Question 2

D

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