A nurse is conducting anger management classes. A client admits that she is verbally abusive to her teenagers when they defy her. She comments, "That's how I was raised!" Which of the following interventions is best in this situation?
A) Suggest the client use positive reinforcement to affect her children's behavior.
B) Teach the client to identify and monitor anger cues.
C) Explore how social beliefs about parenting techniques have changed.
D) Suggest the client and her children begin family therapy.
Ans: B
Feedback:
Cognition or thoughtful review of situations should dictate behaviors in all circumstances. Clients need to learn how to identify and monitor their own anger cues, behavioral and physiologic signals related to anger arousal, signs of impending loss of control, and how to re-channel aggressive responses early.
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