The nurse working with a client with an anxiety disorder should explain that the success of cog-nitive behavioral therapy is based on the client's understanding that:
1. Antecedents of anxiety are childhood traumas
2. Symptoms are related to delusional thoughts
3. The problems are all in the client's mind
4. Symptoms are learned responses to thoughts
ANS: 4
Cognitive therapy helps clients identify target symptoms and change the cognitions associated with them. 1. This is a psychodynamic model explanation. 2. This is not useful, since anxiety dis-orders have no relationship to delusions. 3. This is not a useful construct.
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