Author Question: The nurse is planning goals for a client diagnosed as having a personality disorder. The main goal ... (Read 31 times)

jasdeep_brar · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

The nurse is planning goals for a client diagnosed as having a personality disorder. The main goal of therapy is to help the client to

1. adjust to his medications.
2. learn to get along with others.
3. learn to control his environments.
4. become aware of how his behavior affects his life.

Question 2

The client is unable to make a decision by herself. She clings to her husband and quickly moves to fill his requests. Although she sometimes appears angry, her emotions are not ex-pressed. The client's diagnoses is

1. neuroticism.
2. paranoid personality disorder.
3. dependent personality disorder.
4. narcissistic personality disorder.

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

Answer to Question 1

4
The goals of care for clients with personality disorders are to help clients identify and then become responsible for their own behaviors.

Answer to Question 2

3
The anxiety of dependent personality disorder is associated with separation and abandon-ment.