To effectively plan care for a client, the nurse will understand that activity and adjunct therapies may be more useful in some situations than verbal therapies because adjunct therapies:
1. Allow the client to express feelings on multiple levels at the same time
2. Do not require specific training or expertise to facilitate
3. Provide the client the opportunity to use ego-protective mechanisms
4. Are readily available in the treatment setting
ANS: 1
A client is able to express feelings on the emotional, physical, and symbolic level during activity therapy, whereas verbal therapies are limited to one dimension. 2. The primary facilitator of the selected therapy is required to have formal education and supervised experience. 3. Adjunct therapy does not provide this opportunity, which would be considered nontherapeutic. 4. This is not always the case.
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