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A nurse educates the care giver of a client with Schizophrenia that they should avoid critical

comments or hostility towards the client. Here the nurse focuses on :
(^) Explicit emotions (B) Exaggerated emotions

(C) Implicit emotions (D) Expressed emotions

A mentally ill client exhibits gradual or sudden deviation in the train of thought without
blocking. The nurse identifies this as :

(^) Tangentiality ൯) Derailment
(0 Schizophasia (D) Paraphasia

A nurse communicates to the client that “I will stay with you until you finish your breakfast”.

The therapeutic communication technique used is :
(4) Focusing (B) Broad opening
(C) Offering self (D) Reflecting

A mental health nurse while rendering care to a mentally ill client should not argue against
his/her psychotic symptoms. The most appropriate Mental Health Nursing principle applied
is:

(^) Avoid unnecessary increase in patients’ anxiety

(B) Observation helps to understand the behavior

(C) Use self-understanding as a therapeutic tool

(D) Nursing care is centered on the patient as a person

A client presents with persistent and pervasive feelings of apprehension, belief that he is
inferior to others and excessive preoccupation of being rejected in social situation. This type
of personality disorder is :

(A) Anankastic personality disorder

(B) Avoidant personality disorder

(C) Dependent personality disorder

(D) Emotionally Unstable personality disorder

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