When working with clients with somatoform disorders, the nurse knows the priority intervention is to:
1. Encourage clients to participate in group therapy to receive feedback about the effect of their behavior on others.
2. Tone down clients' characteristic extravagance.
3. Establish a trusting relationship.
4. Express respectful skepticism regarding clients' oversimplifications and overdramatizations.
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Rationale: A trusting relationship is essential to effective therapy. To tone down clients' characteristic extravagance, express respectful skepticism regarding their oversimplifications and overdramatizations, and encourage participation in group therapy to receive feedback about the effect of their behavior on others are appropriate interventions, but they are not priorities.
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