During a prenatal exam, a client expresses several psychosomatic symptoms and has several vague complaints. What could these behaviors indicate?
1. Abuse
2. Mental illness
3. Depression
4. Nothing, they are normal.
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Rationale:
1. Chronic psychosomatic symptoms and vague complaints can be indicators of abuse.
2. Chronic psychosomatic symptoms and vague complaints are not indicators of mental illness or depression.
3. Chronic psychosomatic symptoms and vague complaints are not indicators of mental illness or depression.
4. Chronic psychosomatic symptoms and vague complaints can be indicators of abuse. The first step toward helping the battered woman is to identify her, so these signs should not be discounted as normal.
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