PrepU Therapeutic Relationships

Transference or parataxic distortion

occurs when a client exhibits the same attitudes and behaviors with a caregiver as with a significant, seemingly similar person in the client's life

Which role of the nurse-client relationship is being exhibited when the nurse informs the client and then supports him or her in whatever decision he or she makes?

Advocate

What is not considered a step in the values clarification process?

Assessing - not a step in the values clarification process

In what phase of the therapeutic relationship does the assessment process begin

During the initiating or orienting phase

When comparing social interactions with therapeutic interactions, the nurse understands that therapeutic interactions do what?

Encourage personal goal setting

unconditional positive regard example

Jane, a nursing student, is working with Todd, an alcoholic. Although Jane has an aversive feeling toward people who abuse alcohol, she feels that Todd is worthy of respect and attention regardless of her own personal feelings

It is the nurse's responsibility to define the boundaries of the relationship during which phase of the nurse-client relationship?

Orientation

Building of the therapeutic relationship begins with the nurse's .

Self-awareness

What would indicate that the nurse-client relationship has passed from the orienting phase to the working phase?

The client recognizes feelings of anger and expresses them appropriately.

The priority reason the psychiatric nurse is careful to maintain professional boundaries with clients is to avoid

The loss of therapeutic effectiveness

A nurse is caring for a client experiencing delusions. The client tells the nurse "I am sure my brother has plans to kill me. But I am ready; I will be killing him before he tries to reach me." What is the appropriate action of the nurse in this situation?

The nurse should notify to the primary healthcare provider

The nurse-client relationship is classified as which type of relationship

Therapeutic

Countertransference occurs

When a mental health care professional redirects his or her feelings toward a client or becomes emotionally entangled with a client; I.E. calling a patient Granny

The state of unknowing is referred to as

the nurse's behavior where she or he is open to seeing and listening to the client's views without imposing any of his or her values or viewpoints