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tiara099 · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

A client has been treated with medication and psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Discharge from treatment is being contemplated. To obtain an objective measure of treatment success, the nurse will:

1. Elicit information about client satisfaction with treatment
2. Ask the client whether he is experiencing anxiety at or below the mild level
3. Administer the Hamilton Anxiety Scale
4. Use the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale

Question 2

The client was an awkward child who was ridiculed by his father for his inability to catch a ball.

As an adult, the client developed panic attacks at the time his company established after-work team sporting activities. The advanced practice nurse determines that the client's anxiety occurs in relation to:
1. A signal that predicts a feared event
2. His physiologic responses to sports
3. A genetic deficiency of neurotransmitters
4. An unresolved desire to be a baseball player

af · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: 3
A rating scale will give the most objective measure of the degree to which anxiety has been ef-fectively treated. The Hamilton Anxiety Scale would be the more appropriate to use since the scale mentioned in option 4 is specific for OCD. Options 1 and 2 are more subjective in nature.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 1
This scenario illustrates the behavioral model, which attributes the etiology of anxiety disorders to an earlier traumatic experience. 2. The symptoms are not related to a physiologic cause. 3. There is no evidence of a deficiency. 4. This is not supported by data in the scenario.