Which principle best applies to care of a patient diagnosed with conversion disorder?
a. Structure care to provide time for rituals.
b. Facilitate progressive review of the trauma.
c. Give attention to the patient, not the symptom.
d. Permit dependence while the symptoms are acute.
C
Often, patients with conversion disorder think that their symptom makes them interesting and that they are not interesting as persons. The nurse should matter-of-factly accept the symptom without focusing on it and direct attention to the person as an individual. Two distracters refer to care of a patient with OCD and care of a patient with PTSD.
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