A nurse is assessing a client with anxiety and observes the client yelling and screaming. The nurse, integrating Peplau's theory, interprets this behavior as which of the following?
A) Panic behaviors
B) Relief behaviors
C) Empathetic linkage
D) Social distance
Ans: B
According to Peplau, behavioral cues related to the levels of anxiety are "relief behaviors." Panic is the most severe form of anxiety manifested by an inability to function. Empathetic linkage is the ability to feel in oneself the feelings experienced by another person. Social distance is a concept associated with formal and informal support systems. It is the degree to which the values of the formal support organization and primary group members differ.
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