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nramada · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

Which of the following clients exhibits the most realistic perception of his or her present crisis?

A) A woman whose daughter will soon graduate from high school experiences chronic insomnia due to worrying about her daughter's future.
B) A man believes that his business would have failed no matter what action he had taken to operate it differently.
C) A woman with uncontrolled diabetes states that it is a waste of time to monitor her blood sugar levels because whatever happens was supposed to happen.
D) A woman newly diagnosed with lung cancer laments the fact that she has never made a sincere effort to quit smoking.

Question 2

A 19-year-old college student sought care at the campus medical clinic with complaints of unusual vaginal discharge and was subsequently diagnosed with gonorrhea.

The student's friends and family all live in her home state, and she has not yet formed close relationships with her classmates and roommates. What risk does the student's lack of situational support most clearly pose?

A) Failure to identify the severity of the crisis
B) Deficient knowledge of the options available
C) Use of simplistic or ineffective coping mechanisms
D) Interpretation of the crisis as overwhelming or irresolvable

paavo · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: D
Identifying a link between past smoking habits and present lung cancer shows a realistic understanding of the causation of a crisis. Severe anxiety without tangible cause, resignation, and fatalism are defense and coping mechanisms that are associated with an unrealistic understanding of a crisis.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: D
While numerous negative consequences exist when an individual lacks situational support in a crisis, one of the most common is the tendency to interpret a crisis as overwhelming or irresolvable.