A patient with depersonalization disorder tells the nurse, "It's starting again. I feel as though I'm going to float away.". Which intervention would be most appropriate at this point?
a. Advise her to begin meditation by slowing her breathing.
b. Administer an as-needed antianxiety or sedative medication.
c. Use guided imagery to help her visualize a pleasant scene.
d. Engage her in a concrete, here-and-now activity such as singing.
D
Helping the patient focus on a concrete activity based in here-and-now reality, such as singing, assists the patient to interrupt the dissociative process. Meditation, medication, and guided imagery can help reduce anxiety but work indirectly to reduce vulnerability to dissociation. They do not work as well to directly interrupt the dissociative process itself.
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