The Family of a Patient Whose Insurance Will Not Pay

question 11

Multiple Choice

The family of a patient whose insurance will not pay for continuing hospitalization considers transferring the patient to a public psychiatric hospital. The family expresses concern that the patient will "never get any treatment." Which reply by the nurse would be most helpful?

• A) "Under the law, treatment must be provided. Hospitalization without treatment violates patients' rights."
• B) "That's a justifiable concern because the right to treatment extends only to the provision of food, shelter, and safety."
• C) "Much will depend on other patients, because the right to treatment for a psychotic patient takes precedence over the right to treatment of a patient who is stable."
• D) "All patients in public hospitals have the right to choose both a primary therapist and a primary nurse."

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Definitions:

Person-Centered Therapy

A counseling approach emphasizing the client's capacity for self-direction and understanding of their own environment.

Psychodynamic

A psychological theory or perspective that emphasizes unconscious psychological processes (for example, wishes and fears of which we're not fully aware), and contends that childhood experiences are crucial in shaping adult personality.

Manifest Content

In psychoanalytic theory, the explicit, literal content of a dream, as remembered by the dreamer.

Latent Content

In psychoanalytic theory, the hidden psychological meaning of dreams, beyond the literal story (manifest content).