Exam 19: Cognitive Therapy

An advanced practice nurse (APN)is counseling a client diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.The nurse plans to use activity scheduling to address this client's concerns.What is the purpose of this nursing intervention?

Which of the following client statements indicate teaching about benzodiazepines has been successful? Select all that apply.

Which statement demonstrates the cognitive approach the nurse is using when teaching a client about panic disorder?

A nursing instructor is teaching about dichotomous thinking.Which student statement indicates learning has occurred?

A client recovering from alcohol toxicity is using minimization.Which statement reflects this cognitive distortion?

An advanced practice nurse recommends that a client participate in cognitive therapy.The client asks,"What's cognitive therapy and how can it help me?" Which is the nurse's best reply?

A successful business executive continually thinks her job accomplishments are not adequate.The nurse recognizes the client's thinking reflects which cognitive error?

A nursing student evaluates her group project partner as irresponsible because of minimal participation in planning.When told of this situation,the nursing instructor plans to use the cognitive technique of examining the evidence.Which response by the nursing instructor exemplifies this technique?

A client admitted to a Veterans Administration hospital with a diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder tells the nurse,"I failed my battalion by giving the wrong order.Fortunately,no one was injured." Which nursing diagnosis will the nurse assign this client?

A welder has been selected as employee of the year.The welder wants to ask for a promotion but is hampered by poor self-esteem.Which is the best technique for the employee health nurse to use to help the employee request the promotion?

A nursing instructor is lecturing about cognitive therapy.Which of the following are objectives of implementation of this therapy? Select all that apply.

A client states,"I keep having horrible nightmares about the car accident that killed my daughter.I shouldn't have taken her with me to the store." Using a cognitive approach,which nursing reply is most therapeutic?

When a client's husband comes home late from work,the wife immediately fears infidelity.The APN encourages the wife to consider other explanations for her husband's tardiness.Which technique is the APN using?

Which statement does the nurse recognize exemplifies the level of cognitive function of a client experiencing mild anxiety?

A nursing instructor is teaching about the didactic aspects of cognitive therapy.Which student statement indicates a deficit in meeting the learning objectives of this content?

A nursing assistant failed a prerequisite course toward admission to nursing school and states,"I will always be only a nursing assistant and never an RN." The nursing advisor understands this is an example of which automatic thought?

A nurse practitioner uses cognitive therapy with depressed clients.The nurse asks clients to keep a daily record of dysfunctional thoughts (DRDT).Which of the following are appropriate nursing replies to a client asking about the purpose of this exercise? Select all that apply.

A nursing student states,"The instructor gave me a failing grade on my research paper.I know it's because the instructor doesn't like me." Which cognitive error does the nurse recognize in this student's statement?

A psychiatric nurse is counseling a client who has thought patterns consisting of rapid responses to a situation without rational analysis.Which assessment data will the nurse document?

A labor and delivery nurse listens to a new mother relate thoughts regarding her healthy,8-pound baby girl.Which statement by the mother indicates to the nurse the use of the cognitive error,selective abstraction?