A teenager being treated for oppositional defiance behavior states: "I wish my parents would stop treating me like an irresponsible child.". The nurse implements confrontation as a therapeutic technique when responding:
a. "How can they treat you like an adult when you are only a teenager?"
b. "You want to be treated like an adult, but is it adult-like when you skip school?"
c. "Your parents have a legal responsibility to care for you until you are eighteen.".
d. "Your parents are worried about giving you more freedom than you can handle.".
B
Confrontation is an expression by the nurse of discrepancies in the patient's behavior such as being irresponsible and untrustworthy while wanting to be treated like an adult. The remaining options are not confrontational since they are not identifying such discrepancies.
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