The nurse is meeting with a client suffering from agoraphobia who recently moved to the United States from a country where acts of violence and civil unrest are common
The theoretical model that links anxiety to the uncontrollable events the client experienced in his previous country is the ________ model. a. Behavioral
b. Interpersonal
c. Environmental
d. Psychodynamic
C
The environmental model ties anxiety with uncontrollable events or situations such as fires, floods, and assaults and human-induced traumas. The behavioral model considers anxiety a learned response, the interpersonal model explains anxiety in terms of interactions with others, and the psychodynamic model states anxiety is a result of conflict between the ego and the id.
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A client states, "Every time I get angry, I yell and scream at my wife or I take it out on the kids"
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1. Remove lenses before instilling eyedrops; do not reinsert lenses for 15 minutes. 2. Instill the drops with the contacts in as long as they are the hard kind of contacts. 3. Eyeglasses must be worn for as long as the client must have the eyedrops. 4. Instill the drops with the contacts in as long as they are the soft kind of contacts.