A nurse is conducting a family assessment and asks the following question: "How, as a family, do you deal with disappointments or stressful changes that occur and affect the members of your family?" The nurse is trying to identify which of the
following? 1. Potential for violence
2. Family coping mechanisms
3. Family leaders
4. Family tasks
2. Family coping mechanisms
Rationale:
Family coping mechanisms are behaviors that families use to deal with stress or changes imposed from either within or without. The coping mechanisms families and individuals develop reflect their individual resourcefulness. The assessment of coping mechanisms is a way to determine how families relate to stress. Potential for violence is not assessed by asking about how a family deals with adversity. Determining family leaders and tasks would be assessed by asking the members to identify leaders and tasks.
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