Mental Health CH. 10

A young couple just ended their relationship after a 9-month engagement. One of the individuals is seeking short-term counseling to assist in grieving this loss. Which type of loss best describes what this client is experiencing?

• Loss of security and sense of belonging

• Loss of security and sense of belonging

• Loss of self-esteem

• Loss related to self-actualization

A child who has witnessed the murder of his classmate while at school would experience which kind of loss?

• Physiologic loss

• Loss of self-esteem

• Loss related to self-actualization

• Safety loss

Which of the following terms is used to describe the process by which a person experiences the grief?

• 3. Anticipatory grieving
     

• 3. Disenfranchised grief

• Bereavement

• Mourning

A married couple has just received the news that the husband has terminal cancer. The wife tells the nurse, "Maybe if we get another opinion and start treatment right away there is a chance of survival." The nurse documents that the wife is expressing signs of which of Kubler-Ross's stages of grief?

• Denial

• Anger

• Bargaining

• Depression

After being laid off from work, a client becomes increasingly withdrawn and fatigued, spends entire days in bed, is unkempt, and is eating and sleeping poorly. The nurse would recognize that the client is in which stage of grieving, according to Kubler-Ross?

• Anger

• Bargaining

• Denial

• Depression

The client says to the nurse, "I really want to see my first grandchild born before I die. Is that too much to ask?" The nurse would recognize that the client is in which stage of grieving, according to Kubler-Ross?

• Acceptance

• Anger

• Bargaining

• Depression

Kubler-Ross developed a model of five stages to explain what people experience as they grieve and mourn. Which is stage V of Kubler-Ross's stages of grieving?

• Denial

• Bargaining

• Acceptance

• Anger

Friends of a teenage male recently killed in a car accident are discussing their sense of loss. Which of the following comments best indicates that the friends are trying to make sense of the loss cognitively?

• Why did he have to die so young?

• He shouldn't have been driving so recklessly.

• If we had only stayed longer, he would not have been on that road.

• It took the ambulance too long to get there.

The nurse is working with a woman who lost her partner nearly 3 weeks prior. The woman has recently become less emotional and expressed that few things in her life have meaning right now. Which response by the nurse is most appropriate at this time?

• I am concerned. You are starting to show signs of ineffective grieving.

• You must feel some anger. It is alright to let that out.

• Let's look at the things in your life that you still enjoy.

• You are just starting to accept that this loss is real.

The nurse is working with a client who lost her youngest child 2 months ago. When the nurse approaches, the client yells, 'I don't want to talk to you. You have no idea what it's like to lose a child!' The nurse bases her response to the client on the understanding of which of the following?

• Hostility is a common behavioral response to grief.

• It is too soon after the loss to empathize with the client.

• Personality traits such as aggressiveness are exaggerated during the grief process.

• The nurse may have nonverbally indicated a judgmental attitude toward the client.