A client with an eating disorder is trying to develop new coping skills. The process the nurse can use to help family members as they support the client is to:
1. Assist the family to explore their own coping strategies.
2. Encourage the family to avoid discussing their feelings about the client's illness.
3. Assist the family to challenge the client's behavior.
4. Teach the family how to manipulate the client's environment to avoid problem situations.
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Rationale: Assist and encourage the family members to explore together their usual coping strategies to determine if any previously used strategies can be useful in the present situation, and identify those mechanisms, that may contribute to further dysfunction. It is not therapeutic to encourage the family to avoid discussion of feelings or be manipulative. The family should be supportive rather than challenging.
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