When a Patient with a Personality Disorder Uses Manipulation as a Way

question 28

Multiple Choice

When a patient with a personality disorder uses manipulation as a way of getting needs met,the staff agree to use limit setting as an intervention.How does limit setting work to reduce manipulation?

• A) Limit setting indulges the patient's desire for attention from staff.
• B) It gives the patient a different concern on which to focus his anger.
• C) External controls provide security while internal controls are developing.
• D) When staff limit the patient's behavior,he is no longer anxious about it.

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Definitions:

Accommodation

The cognitive process of revising existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understanding to incorporate new information.

Assimilation

The process by which individuals or groups adopt the culture and norms of another group, often losing their original identity.

Attribution

A belief concerning why people behave in a certain way.

Fixation

In psychoanalytic theory, a persistent focus of the id's pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier stage of psychosexual development, leading to psychic conflict and developmental issues.