Chapter 6:Therapeutic Communication
NCLEX Psychiatric Mental Health
Nursing by Videbecks Latest Edition
Which phone is acceptable distance between a speaker in the audience?
A. Intimate
B. personal
C. Public
D. Social - Answer C. Public zone - 12 25 feet
Nancy is the nurse caring for a young mother who states that she is unhappy with her husband
because he spends too much time with his friends during football season. When Nancy Stacy
she agrees with the client that she is "right" and her assumption that her husband is
inappropriately inattentive, which non-therapeutic communication technique is this an example
of?
A. Voicing doubt
B. summarizing
C. Giving approval
D. Silent - Answer C. Giving approval
Which communication technique involves giving encouragement to the client, enabling
continuance of the conversation?
A. Focusing
B. excepting
C. General leads
D. Exploring - Answer C. General leads gives encouragement to continue
It is the nurses responsibility to establish a therapeutic relationship with the client. Which of the
following isn't excepting body position for therapeutic communication?
, D. Arms folded against The chest - Answer B. hands of the side of the body
The nurse indicated interest in and acceptance of the client by all the following behaviors except
A. Sitting behind a desk
B. slightly leaning towards the client
C. Maintaining a nonthreatening I contact
D. Facing the client - Answer A. Sitting behind a desk does not indicate interest and acceptance
The nurses standing 4 feet away from the client with her arms crossed. At what space is the
therapeutic communication interaction most comfortable within most cultural situations?
A. 12 to 25 feet
B. 18 inches to 36 inches
C. 3 to 6 feet
D. 0 to 18 inches - Answer C. 3 to 6 feet away from the client. Hispanic, Mediterranean, East
Indian, Asian, in Middle Eastern are more comfortable with less than 4 to 12 feet of space
between them while talking
A client diagnosed with schizophrenia is hallucinating. With communication technique me the
nurse used to redirect the client,
A. Presenting reality
B. seeking information
C. Redirecting
D. Making observations - Answer A. Presenting reality
Get the stuff from him - is an example of which type of message?
A. Clear
B. abstract
C. Direct
NCLEX Psychiatric Mental Health
Nursing by Videbecks Latest Edition
Which phone is acceptable distance between a speaker in the audience?
A. Intimate
B. personal
C. Public
D. Social - Answer C. Public zone - 12 25 feet
Nancy is the nurse caring for a young mother who states that she is unhappy with her husband
because he spends too much time with his friends during football season. When Nancy Stacy
she agrees with the client that she is "right" and her assumption that her husband is
inappropriately inattentive, which non-therapeutic communication technique is this an example
of?
A. Voicing doubt
B. summarizing
C. Giving approval
D. Silent - Answer C. Giving approval
Which communication technique involves giving encouragement to the client, enabling
continuance of the conversation?
A. Focusing
B. excepting
C. General leads
D. Exploring - Answer C. General leads gives encouragement to continue
It is the nurses responsibility to establish a therapeutic relationship with the client. Which of the
following isn't excepting body position for therapeutic communication?
, D. Arms folded against The chest - Answer B. hands of the side of the body
The nurse indicated interest in and acceptance of the client by all the following behaviors except
A. Sitting behind a desk
B. slightly leaning towards the client
C. Maintaining a nonthreatening I contact
D. Facing the client - Answer A. Sitting behind a desk does not indicate interest and acceptance
The nurses standing 4 feet away from the client with her arms crossed. At what space is the
therapeutic communication interaction most comfortable within most cultural situations?
A. 12 to 25 feet
B. 18 inches to 36 inches
C. 3 to 6 feet
D. 0 to 18 inches - Answer C. 3 to 6 feet away from the client. Hispanic, Mediterranean, East
Indian, Asian, in Middle Eastern are more comfortable with less than 4 to 12 feet of space
between them while talking
A client diagnosed with schizophrenia is hallucinating. With communication technique me the
nurse used to redirect the client,
A. Presenting reality
B. seeking information
C. Redirecting
D. Making observations - Answer A. Presenting reality
Get the stuff from him - is an example of which type of message?
A. Clear
B. abstract
C. Direct
