The nurse would expect clients with dissociative disorders to have what in common with clients with anxiety disorders? Anxiety that is:
1. So disabling that they are totally nonfunctional.
2. So disabling that their functioning is adversely affected.
3. Objective.
4. Nonthreatening.
2
Rationale: The anxiety is so disabling that these clients' functioning is adversely affected, but they may not be totally dysfunctional. The anxiety is a subjective feeling that is threatening and not objective.
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A) activities at home. B) prescriptions. C) future appointments. D) all of the above