Which information should the nurse include when teaching a client with a personality disorder?
1. "Journal writing will help you recognize feeling states."
2. "Try problem solving independently to help with difficult relationships."
3. "Identify people and circumstances that create conflict; then avoid them."
4. "Try to alleviate behaviors that cause problems relating with others."
ANS: 1
Journal writing will help the client identify his or her own behavior and its effect on others. After this step, the client can work on changing behaviors. 2. This increases client isolation. 3. Working through problems is preferable to avoiding them. 4. Alleviating problem behaviors is important, but the client must first identify the problems.
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