A new nurse mentions, "I can understand a situational crisis upsetting a person's equilib-rium, but I don't understand how something positive, like getting married or having a baby, can precipitate a crisis."
To explain, the mentor should answer, "You need to think of a crisis as a(n):
a. Threat to survival."
b. Threat to the familiar."
c. Opportunity to learn."
d. Psychiatric disorder."
ANS: B
By viewing a crisis as a threat to the norm, it is possible to understand why even positive events, such as winning the lottery, may provoke a crisis. Crises are not considered discrete psychiatric disorders nor are they opportunities to learn. Crises are not always threats to one's physical survival.
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