The grandmother of a preadolescent client has passed away. The mother tells the client that their grandmother is not dead but just sleeping "forever." The nurse realizes the mother's explanation of death is:
a. therapeutic. c. exaggerated.
b. non-therapeutic. d. denying the death has occurred.
ANS: B
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