A new nurse on a unit makes a charting error. Although the nurse rectifies the error appropriately, the nurse thinks, "I should have never become a nurse. I'm just no good at this." What type of thinking does this reflect?
A) Overgeneralization
B) Catastrophic thinking
C) Selective abstraction
D) Minimization
A
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