A Client Is in Therapy with a Nurse Practitioner for the Treatment

question 12

Multiple Choice

A client is in therapy with a nurse practitioner for the treatment of arachnophobia.The nurse practitioner decides to use the technique of flooding.Which intervention best exemplifies flooding?

• A)Giving rewards for demonstrating a decrease in fear of spiders
• B)Encouraging the client to sit through the movie Spiderman
• C)Accompanying the client to a 1-hour visit to the local zoo's spider room
• D)Offering a computer program that progressively presents anxiety-producing spider scenarios

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Definitions:

Wilcoxon Signed Rank Sum Test

A statistical test that doesn't rely on parameters to compare two matched groups, aiming to determine if there is a difference in their population mean ranks.

Normal Approximation

A technique in statistics where a binomial distribution is approximated using a normal distribution, applicable under certain conditions, such as a large sample size.

F-distribution

A probability distribution used in analysis of variance (ANOVA), especially relevant when comparing variances across different samples.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A non-parametric statistical test that compares three or more independent samples to determine if at least one sample distribution stochastically dominates one other sample.