The psychiatric-mental health nurse is employed in a community mental health center that uses a neurobiological theoretical perspective to guide treatment
The nurse understands that the neurobiological principle that supports the use of counseling and therapy is that these treatment modalities: A) Increase the client's capacity for self-discovery of unconscious personality components.
B) Allow for reinforcement of desirable thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
C) Create changes through learning that in turn create changes in neuronal functioning.
D) Encourage completion of developmental tasks that were not successfully completed earlier in life.
C
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