The client is angrily telling the caregiver about what people have been doing to him. The most therapeutic response is,
1. Those are terrible things for them to do to you.
2. Why are you telling me? I haven't done anything to you.
3. It must be difficult to feel alone and threatened like that.
4. It doesn't make any sense for your neighbors to do these things to you.
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Therapeutic response: reflection
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