The nurse practitioner plans to use a psychoanalytical framework when treating a client diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Which would be the focus of this nursing intervention?
A. Correcting inappropriate learning patterns
B. Changing a dysfunctional social environment
C. Exploring the "here and now" with the client and family
D. Exploring behaviors and defense mechanisms associated with the superego.
ANS: D
Freud identified the superego as the component of the personality that strives for perfection. Violation of the superego's standards generates guilt and anxiety in a person with a strong superego and understanding of these defense mechanisms is identified as important to assisting the client in achieving desired changes or accepting themselves as unique individuals.
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