The nurse who follows the social psychiatry model of etiology of anxiety understands that the four stages of anxiety are explainable as:
1. Individual responses to the environment ranging along a continuum from adaptive to formation of symptoms of mental or physical illness
2. A generalization from an earlier traumatic experience to a benign setting or object that can be modified by new learning
3. A genetically predetermined response to environmental stress
4. Related to degrees of warning to the ego that it is in peril from internal threats
ANS: 1
This theory speaks of anxiety existing along a continuum, a feature that corresponds to the four stages of anxiety. Option 2 is an explanation based on behavioral theory. Option 3 is a biologic theory. Option 4 is an inaccurate statement derived from the psychodynamic model.
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