A 29-year-old client attending a psychiatric outpatient clinic believes that her husband, sister, and son cause her problems.  Listening to the client describe the problems, the nurse displays therapeutic communication in which response?

A client diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia believes that evil spirits are being released from a local church and verbally threatens to bomb the local church.  Considering the rights of this client, what is the nurse’s initial nursing responsibility?

Which statement about balance provides a basis for a nurse’s management of the therapeutic environment?

Which statement made by a nurse is most helpful when moving into the working stage of a therapeutic relationship with the patient?

During a group session, one patient comments to another, “When you first started in this group, you were unable to make decisions, but now you can. You’ve made such progress that I’m beginning to think maybe I can do this too!” Which of Yalom’s therapeutic group factors is evident by this patient’s statement?

The client expresses sadness at “being all alone with no one to share my life with.”  Which response by the nurse demonstrates therapeutic communication?

A newly admitted client tells the nurse, “Can you hear those people laughing at me?”  What is the nurse’s best response?

The newly admitted client is angry and threatening violence and destruction.  What intervention would be best to prevent further escalation?  Choose the best answer.

A client asks the nurse, “Do your children ever stay out so late you begin to worry about them?”  Which response is appropriate for the nurse to make?

Which element of the therapeutic environment has the highest priority?