A Client with an Antisocial Personality Disorder Is Caught Shoplifting

question 19

Multiple Choice

A client with an antisocial personality disorder is caught shoplifting and as part of his probation agreement is required to spend 1 month at a psychiatric facility for treatment. Select the intervention by the nurse that has the highest probability of success in treating this disorder.

• A)Using daily one-on-one sessions with the nurse
• B)Placing the client in group peer therapy with strong external controls
• C)Initiating treatment with antianxiety medications
• D)Quickly placing the client in isolation when he acts out

Grasp the concepts of primacy and recency effects and their importance in short-term and long-term storage.

Explain how selective attention contributes to memory formation and information processing.

Differentiate between explicit and implicit memories, and understand the effects of anterograde amnesia on these memory types.

Describe the two types of explicit memory and provide real-life examples for each.