While working with an older male client, a nurse begins to think that the client reminds her of her grandfather, and responds as if she was the granddaughter. The nurse is developing which of the following?
A) Empathy
B) Transference
C) Countertransference
D) Modeling
Ans: C
The nurse, upon feeling that the patient reminds her of her grandfather, is developing countertransference; that is, the nurse is developing an attachment to the client, treating the client as her grandfather. Empathy refers to the ability to feel what the client is feeling. Transference is the displacement of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors originally associated with a significant other from childhood onto a person in a current therapeutic relationship. Modeling is pervasive imitation, or one person trying to be similar to another.
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