The advanced practice nurse concludes a client would profit from the type of therapy in which peers
and interdisciplinary staff all have a voice in determining the level of client privileges. The nurse
would arrange for
a. milieu therapy.
b. cognitive therapy.
c. short-term dynamic therapy.
d. systematic desensitization.
ANS: A
Milieu therapy is based on the idea that all members of the environment contribute to the planning
and functioning of the setting. The other therapies are all individual therapies that do not fit the
description given.
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