When planning care for clients on the mental health unit, the nurse using principles of humanism would consider which of the following?

1. Clinical interventions are most effective when they focus on the current actions, feelings, and concerns of clients.
2. Clients rely on providers to develop solutions for their problems.
3. Emotional stress has a relationship to physical symptoms.
4. The mind–body relationship focuses on biological explanations of illness.


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Rationale: A humanistic-interactional view indicates physical and mental factors are interrelated and that a change in one may result in a change in another. Principles of humanism stress that people have the power or potential to solve their own problems and are not passive recipients of care given by psychiatric professionals. People are influenced by their past and the full range of life experiences, not simply by the present situation. Humanistic-interactional principles include, but are not limited to, biological explanations of mental disorders.

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