While the nurse works with a family, the father—with a smirk on his face—states, "I love my wife, and she's a good woman who would do anything for her family" and rolls his eyes. Which behavior should the nurse recognize?
1. Triangulation
2. Scapegoating
3. Double-binding
4. Differentiation
Ans: 3. Double-binding
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