Which of the following client behaviors should suggest to the nurse that a client needs interven-tion and treatment? The individual who:
1. Shoplifts and is arrested and jailed
2. Loses a clerical position, then volunteers in a social agency to maintain skills
3. Loses his wife in an accident and resumes his usual activities within a week
4. Is depressed and unable to work or assume family responsibilities
ANS: 4
Mental health implies absence of signs and symptoms of mental disorder and freedom from ex-cessive mental and emotional disability and pain. Depression and inability to work or assume family responsibilities suggests emotional pain and disability. Option 1 is criminal behavior rather than mental illness. Option 2 is adaptive behavior. Option 3 is within the range of normal behav-ior associated with grief work.
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