A nurse states, "I plan ways for patients assigned to me to participate in their own care and to be actively involved in all of the activities on the unit.". This approach demonstrates the concept of:
a. social accountability.
b. therapeutic community.
c. nurse-patient relationship.
d. multidisciplinary mental health team.
B
Maxwell Jones published The Therapeutic Community in 1953 . It encouraged making use of the patient's social environment as a means of providing therapeutic experiences.
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a. True b. False