Practice Question
A nurse is assisting with the care of a client.
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Role play responses to offensive behavior.
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Role play responses to offensive behavior
🔹 This technique is part of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and helps the client learn alternative coping strategies.
🔹 Adolescents with aggressive tendencies benefit from modeling appropriate responses in high-stress situations.
🔹 It promotes self-regulation, empathy, and reflective thinking.
Use nonthreatening body language when addressing the client
🔹 Nonverbal communication impacts how defensive or aggressive a client may become.
🔹 Open posture, calm tone, and appropriate distance reduce escalation risk.
🔹 Clients with a history of trauma, neglect, or anger issues respond better to calm and respectful demeanor.
Provide structure and boundaries for the client
🔹 Adolescents with conduct or oppositional behavior often thrive with consistent rules and limits.
🔹 Structure promotes safety, predictability, and helps decrease manipulative or unsafe behaviors.
🔹 Clear boundaries reinforce accountability and expectations.
Teach behavior modification techniques
🔹 Behavior modification uses positive reinforcement, consequences, and reward systems to encourage healthy behaviors.
🔹 It is evidence-based and effective for managing aggression, defiance, and impulsivity in adolescents.
🔹 This teaches the client to link actions with outcomes, a skill often underdeveloped in clients with behavior disorders.
Redirect the client to an appropriate activity
🔹 Redirection is a de-escalation technique useful when the client becomes agitated or distracted.
🔹 Engaging in structured, safe activities promotes positive coping, helps the client focus energy, and decreases the likelihood of aggression.
🔹 It supports emotional regulation and impulse control.
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This question is from PN Mental Health 2023 which contains 61 questions.
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Question Details
- Category: LPN Nursing Exam(s)
- Subcategory: LPN ATI Exams
- Domain: Mental Health
- Answer Choices: 9