A family has been seen at the community mental health clinic for several weeks and continues to demonstrate abusive, violent behavior. The husband persists in physically and verbally abusing his wife and two children
The family's 10-year-old son has been suspended from school for fighting and destroying school property. An appropriate nursing diagnosis for this family is what?
A) Compromised ineffective family coping related to inadequate comfort provided by primary support person
B) Disabling ineffective family coping related to overt destructive behavior
C) Altered family process related to father's unemployment
D) Ineffective individual coping related to father's noncompliance
Ans: B
The family process not only is altered and ineffective but also could be diagnosed as disabling at this point. The father and his son both demonstrate disruptive and destructive behaviors.
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