A nurse planning a staff education session would correctly explain the role of psychopharmacologic treatment as which of the following?
1. Decrease clients' worst symptoms so that they do not require long-term treatment.
2. Promote clients' physiologic stability so that they can grow holistically.
3. Stabilize clients so that they can participate in psychoanalysis.
4. Manage clients so that they are happy and do not have to endure the stresses of everyday life.
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Rationale: The goal of psychopharmacology is to stabilize brain function, thus allowing clients to grow emotionally, in their relationships, and at their jobs or school. The goal should be more than just decreasing the worst symptoms. Psychoanalysis is only one form of psychotherapy. All people need to learn how to cope with the stresses of everyday life, and a medication does not make a person happy. It can improve brain function and decrease or eliminate depressive symptoms.
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