To effectively plan care for a patient, the nurse will understand that activity and adjunct therapies may be more useful in some situations than verbal therapies because adjunct therapies:
a. Are readily available in the treatment setting
b. Do not require specific training or expertise to facilitate
c. Provide the patient the opportunity to use ego-protective mechanisms
d. Allow the patient to express feelings on multiple levels at the same time
ANS: D
A patient is able to express feelings on the emotional, physical, and symbolic levels during activity therapy, whereas verbal therapies are limited to one dimension. The primary facilita-tor of the selected therapy is required to have formal education and supervised experience. Adjunct therapy does not provide this opportunity, which would be considered nontherapeu-tic. Treatment settings are not always readily available.
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