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A nurse clinician uses rational-emotive therapy with a patient who is chronically depressed. The initial step in this process is to help the patient
 
  a. identify developmental tasks and progress.
  b. manage environmental stressors more effectively.
  c. explore childhood influences on the patient's emotional state.
  d. recognize how irrational beliefs are related to painful feelings.

Question 2

At the time of discharge, a patient with a European-American worldview demands copies of all medical records. Which analysis most accurately explains the patient's behavior? The patient
 
  a. continues to experience mistrust of the team's truthfulness.
  b. is probably planning to see an attorney about poor care.
  c. values the written evidence of illness and treatment.
  d. probably wants to edit the records for accuracy.



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Answer to Question 1

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Cognitive therapists believe that irrational beliefs or automatic thoughts cause self-defeating behaviors to be maintained. Individuals can challenge their self-defeating behaviors once they identify irrational beliefs and see their connection to painful feelings. The other options reflect interventions that might occur later.

Answer to Question 2

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Members of European-American cultures have analytic worldviews and value information that is written because it lends proof. The distracters offer more remote reasons for the behavior.





 

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