A client on an inpatient psychiatric unit has features of borderline personality disorder. Staff members often feel manipulated by her behaviors. Which of the following interventions should be integrated into the client's plan of care?
A) Providing the client with social skills training
B) Strategies for setting limits with the client
C) Teaching stress management techniques to the client
D) Increasing the client's recreational therapy
Ans: B
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The nurse introduces the use of limit setting when clients engage in manipulative, acting-out, dependent, or similar inappropriate behaviors.
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