Why would a family strenuously resist the nurse's efforts to be helpful?
a. People have the tendency to want to stay the same.
b. The family as a system operates on the principle of equifinality.
c. The nurse crossed the family's coping boundary.
d. The family system is trying to achieve entropy.
ANS: A
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