The nursing student knows that involving families with the client's treatment is an important aspect of family nursing. Certain biases, such as believing families are responsible for the client's mental illness, prevents:

Question

1. Social interaction and violates family rights.
2. Hope, support, and happiness.
3. Future episodes of negative client behavior.
4. Family identity and reduces negative perceptions.

Answer 1

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Rationale: Assessing and intervening with the families of clients is an essential nursing role. Unfortunately, some mental health care professionals still have a bias against family involvement. This bias is a remnant of now-discredited theories that poor parenting and dysfunctional family interaction patterns give rise to mental illness. A related bias is the belief that if families "cause" schizophrenia, then the family's contact with the client should be limited for the client's sake. Besides violating family rights, this bias prevents social interaction with family members that might serve as a normalizing force by confronting clients with reality. These biases do not reduce negative perceptions, negative client behavior, or hope, support, and happiness.