When assessing a client with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), the nurse would MOST expect to find which of the following behaviors?
a. reckless spending
b. inability to discard worn-out and worthless objects
c. delegation of tasks to others without doing anything personally
d. lacking in values and ethics
B
Clients with OCPD tend to have great difficulty discarding objects, no matter how worn out or worthless they are. They also have a tendency to hoard money. OCPD only occurs in about 1% of the general population. However, men are twice as likely to be diagnosed with OCPD as women.
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