A group of psychiatric–mental health nurses are participating in an exercise in which they are "unpacking" their thoughts and assumptions around the causes of clients' mental health problems
Which of the following factors would be categorized as a dispositional factor?
A) A client grew up in a neighborhood that was among the most affluent in the region.
B) A client experienced abuse at the hands of a trusted family friend when he was a child.
C) A client has a personality that is usually characterized as "gentle and fragile."
D) A client has been frequently been "bounced around" from institution to institution.
Ans: C
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Dispositional factors are considered the elements within a person that account for or explain his or her actions or qualities. Situational factors involve the social phenomena or outside elements that influence a person's or a group's behavior. Treatment history, neighborhood, and incidents of abuse would be considered situational rather than dispositional factors.
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