A Patient Is Being Treated in the Inpatient Unit for Paranoid

question 7

Multiple Choice

A patient is being treated in the inpatient unit for paranoid delusions that his wife is unfaithful resulting in threats to "get her for this whenever I get out." Which intervention to assure his wife's safety will his primary therapist include in the discharge plan?

• A) Sharing the threats he has made with his wife
• B) Requiring mandatory day hospital attendance
• C) Advising the patient that he needs continued outpatient services
• D) Informing the patient of the consequences of harming his wife

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