The most appropriate initial response to a client's comment that she recently saw a curandero (folk healer) would be
1. Asking what occurred during the visit to the curandero.
2. Discouraging the client from returning to see the curandero.
3. Encouraging the client to continue to see the curandero.
4. Explaining that folk medicine interferes with Western medicine.
ANS: 1
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