The nurse is caring for a Native American mental health client. The client's family arrives for a visit and wishes to perform a singing ceremony to help the client recover. What is this type of act known as?
A) Bibliotherapy
B) Fellowship
C) A ritual
D) An alternative therapy
Ans: C
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Worship is the devotion accorded to a higher power or deity, and rituals are the ceremonies, rites, or acts such as prayer; singing hymns; fasting or abstaining from food, water, or sex; and partaking of sacramental emblems. Acts of worship and ritual serve to express peoples' devotion to a deity. They facilitate their commitment or recommitment to a spiritual or moral life, offer penitence, offer settings and opportunities for solidarity with others, and provide for spiritual enlightenment.
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