During the evaluation and revision process, the nurse needs to consider the client's progress toward understanding the relationship between the dissociative state and the increased anxiety that is felt as repressed past trauma is triggered by
environmental factors. What would the nurse use to evaluate the client's progress toward this understanding so that revisions can be made if necessary?
A) Ability to recall past traumatic events
B) A decrease in self-destructive behaviors
C) Imitation of the behaviors modeled by the nurse
D) Acceptance by the family of the client's dissociative state
A
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