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leo leo

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A patient with acute mania undresses in the day room and dances about. Select the best intervention.
 
  a. Quietly ask the patient, Are you embarrassed? Don't you think you should put your clothes on?
  b. Let the patient stay in the day room. Move other patients to a different area.
  c. Cover the patient with a blanket and walk with the patient to a quiet room.
  d. Tell the patient firmly, Stop dancing and put on your clothing..

Question 2

Symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder can occur in children as young as _____ years old.
 
  a. 3
  b. 5
  c. 7
  d. 9



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Answer to Question 1

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Patients should be protected from the embarrassing consequences of their poor judgment whenever possible. Protecting the patient from public exposure by matter-of-factly covering and removing the patient from the area, with a sufficient number of staff to avoid argument and provide control, is an effective approach.

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Symptoms can occur at this age, but in most cases, symptoms either do not occur or are not diagnosed until adolescence.





 

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