A client complains of feeling angry whenever he sees families relating well with one another. During a family group session, the nursing student observes a family member belittling every statement made by the client

Question

The nursing student knows that the client's thinking is often: 1. What leads the client to negative behaviors.
2. Erratic and problematic.
3. Conscious and deliberate.
4. Automatic, without active or conscious effort.

Answer 1

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Rationale: The heart of cognitive therapy lies in recognizing how we think and behave and in identifying problematic learning. People develop patterns of thinking over time, often automatically, without active or conscious effort. Automatic thoughts can develop into specific (and frequently solidly crystallized) sets of problematic thinking. Clients' automatic thinking may comprise a part of negative behaviors. The client's thinking does not appear to be conscious, deliberate, or erratic.