A patient with a personality disorder has shared with staff that family members have acted cruelly while at the same time telling the family about receiving indifferent care from staff members
This behavior is identified as the patient's attempt to: a. learn how much acting out will be tolerated by the unit's staff.
b. align family and staff to maximize efforts for patient behavioral change.
c. seek a structured, therapeutic environment while internal controls are being developed.
d. create family-staff conflict, thus diverting focus from the patient's need for self-examination.
D
The behavior described is an example of manipulation. The goal of such behavior is to create conflict in the hope that while family and staff are "fighting among themselves," no one will focus on or place pressure on the patient to change maladaptive social responses.
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