When obtaining a history from a client who displays passive-aggressive or negativistic personality behaviors, the clinician expects to find which description of how the client was cared for during early childhood?
a. indulgence and encouragement for the child to continue infantile behaviors
b. abrupt loss of nurturance, followed by unfair or excessive developmental demands
c. parents who were overly protective and did not allow the child to do things for him- or herself
d. parents who encouraged and praised all decisions the child made for him- or herself
B
A person displaying passive-aggressive or negativistic personality behaviors most likely had a childhood marked with an abrupt loss of nurturance, followed by unfair or excessive developmental demands. This most frequently occurs when the firstborn child is displaced by the birth of a younger sibling. Eventually the child learns to get back at authority figures indirectly by taking a long time to perform tasks or by doing the task requested poorly, with obvious flaws. The person's passive-aggressive behavior is a result of being unwilling or unable to directly express one's frustrations with others.
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