A former soldier has returned from a tour of duty with posttraumatic stress disorder. During a therapy session, he has been asked to describe some of the scenes he witnessed
Which of the following responses would prompt the nurse to document the client's affect as flat?
A) The client describes the death of a fellow soldier in darkly comic terms.
B) The client fights back tears when describing a fellow soldier's suffering from injuries.
C) The client adamantly refuses to describe what he witnessed overseas.
D) The client provides a factual but monotone and nonexpressive description of wartime events.
Ans: D
A flat affect is characterized by an absence or near absence of any signs of affective responses, such as an immobile face and monotonous tone of voice.
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