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Acute Stress Disorder (ASD)
Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) ( 6 Questions)
The nurse's response of acknowledging the client's emotions and normalizing their feelings validates their experience. It emphasizes that such emotional responses are common after traumatic events, helping to reduce the client's distress and potentially fostering a sense of connection.
This response might invalidate the client's emotions and rush their healing process. Telling the client that they will "get over this eventually" oversimplifies their experience and may cause further frustration.
Advising the client to solely focus on avoiding reminders of the trauma (situations that remind them of the event) could lead to avoidance behaviors and hinder their recovery. It's important to gradually address triggers rather than completely avoiding them.
Encouraging the client to "forget about the event completely and move on" could be dismissive of their emotional struggle. Forgetting is not a realistic goal, and suppressing emotions can be harmful in the long run.
Choice A rationale:
The nurse's response of acknowledging the client's emotions and normalizing their feelings validates their experience. It emphasizes that such emotional responses are common after traumatic events, helping to reduce the client's distress and potentially fostering a sense of connection.
Choice B rationale:
This response might invalidate the client's emotions and rush their healing process. Telling the client that they will "get over this eventually" oversimplifies their experience and may cause further frustration.
Choice C rationale:
Advising the client to solely focus on avoiding reminders of the trauma (situations that remind them of the event) could lead to avoidance behaviors and hinder their recovery. It's important to gradually address triggers rather than completely avoiding them.
Choice D rationale:
Encouraging the client to "forget about the event completely and move on" could be dismissive of their emotional struggle. Forgetting is not a realistic goal, and suppressing emotions can be harmful in the long run.