Which statement is the basis for the combination of both ...

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Which statement is the basis for the combination of both interactive therapy and antide-pressant medication for a patient whose chronic depression resulted in a suicide attempt?
 
  a. Therapy is seldom effective when not supported with appropriately prescribed medications.
  b. The suicide attempt was the deciding factor in determining the need to prescribe an antidepressant.
  c. Patients are more willing to attend therapy sessions when they are prescribed medications to manage acute symptoms.
  d. Research has shown that a combination of therapy and medications achieve ex-pected outcomes more effectively than single interventions.

Question 2

Which statements are the basis for making counseling available to grade-school children who have experienced the violent death of a classmate? Select all that apply.
 
  a. It is vital to foster each child's sense of psychologically safety.
  b. The fear of the unknown circumstances of the classmate's death will serve to in-crease their own anxieties.
  c. Counseling will provide mental health professionals with the opportunity to ad-dress all the children's concerns.
  d. The more appropriate information the children are given about their classmate's death, the better they will be able to understand why the death occurred.
  e. Although the children may not be capable of understanding the information they are given, the interaction with mental health providers will minimize their anxie-ties.

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
In general, when medications are indicated, the combination of medication and interactive therapy is more effective than either modality alone. The remaining options are not true statements.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A, B, D
Strategies to enhance a sense of psychological safety for children in crisis include talking with the child about the crisis or trauma in terms that he or she can understand. The more in-formation that the child can be given about who, what, where, why, and how the crisis oc-curred, the easier it is for the child to make sense of the situation. Fear of the unknown will make a traumatized child more anxious and symptomatic. Although is may not be possible to address or resolve all of the concerns, listening to the child, without necessarily having good answers to his or her questions, can be very therapeutic.