During a Support Group Meeting Focusing on Strategies to Manage

question 21

Multiple Choice

During a support group meeting focusing on strategies to manage symptoms, a patient asks the nurse leader how to deal with angry outbursts from a supervisor. Select the nurse's best action.

• A) solve the question, and then move on to another topic.
• B) Offer to solve the question privately after the group session.
• C) Inform the patient that only illness-related problems can be discussed in the group.
• D) Matter-of-factly explain that the topic being discussed is the importance of medication.

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Definitions:

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

A mental disorder where people feel the need to check things repeatedly, perform certain routines repeatedly, or have certain thoughts repeatedly.

Middle-aged Adult

An individual who is in the middle phase of life, often defined as being between the ages of 40 to 65 years.

Adolescent

A developmental phase following childhood and before adulthood, marked by significant physical, psychological, and social changes, typically occurring between ages 13 and 19.