During a family assessment, the nurse asks "How, as a family, do you deal with disappointments or stressful changes that occur and affect the members of your family?" What is the nurse attempting to identify?
1. Family coping mechanisms
2. Whether the family experiences stress
3. Which family members are most stressed
4. Family dynamics
Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: Family coping mechanisms are behaviors that families use to deal with stress or changes imposed from either within or without. The coping mechanisms families and individuals develop reflect their individual resourcefulness. The assessment of coping mechanisms is a way to determine how families relate to stress.
Rationale 2: The scenario correctly assumes that families will periodically experience stress.
Rationale 3: The question is not focused on who is stressed but rather how stress is handled by the family.
Rationale 4: The question is not focused on the general function of the family but rather how stress is handled by the family.
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