Students are observing a staff nurse who is empathic with the child undergoing chemotherapy. The students observe the nurse interplaying the internalized feelings of the child and the child's experiences or fantasies
The students recognize that the nurse, while fully absorbed in the identity of the child, still identifies himself as a separate personality. The student who correctly understands empathy recognizes the phase of empathy as: 1. Detachment.
2. Identification.
3. Reverberation.
4. Incorporation.
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Rationale:
1. Withdrawing from subjective involvement describes detachment.
2. Becoming absorbed in contemplating the child describes identification.
3. Interplaying the internalized feelings of the child correctly describes reverberation.
4. Taking in the experiences of the child describes incorporation.
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