A psychiatric nurse will recognize which action as demonstration of resistance behavior?
a. Regularly referring to himself as a "loser"
b. Becoming tearful during every therapy session about abuse
c. Asking to postpone a therapy session until after visiting hours
d. Consistently describing his drug use as starting "a little while ago"
D
Resistance is the patient's reluctance or avoidance of verbalizing or experiencing troubling aspects of himself or herself. This is often caused by the patient's unwillingness to change when the need for change is recognized. The remaining options lack the needed reluctance to open communication seen with resistant behaviors.
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