The mental health nurse is conducting the initial assessment of an obese client. The client confides that she was sexually molested at age 7 and began putting on weight thereafter. The nurse determines that the client's symptoms are compatible with a somatization disorder and recalls that obesity for this client most likely represents which?
A. Satisfaction with self
B. A form of functional coping
C. Protection from the risk of intimacy
D. Long-term lack of compliance with weight programs
Ans: C. Protection from the risk of intimacy
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