Why might a family strenuously resist the nurse's efforts to be helpful?
A. People have the tendency to want to stay the same.
B. The family as a system operates on the principle of equifinality.
C. The nurse crossed the family's coping boundary.
D. The family system is trying to achieve entropy.
A. People have the tendency to want to stay the same.
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