What approach does the PMHNP use with the patient that is crucial to the psychodynamic therapy process?
The PMHNP is caring for a patient with dissociated self-state that the PMHNP identifies as being associated with traumatic experiences in the patient’s past. What approach does the PMHNP use with the patient that is crucial to the psychodynamic therapy process?
| A. | Assisting the patient to experience and accept the various dimensions of the self through enhanced awareness of the traumatic states | |
| B. | Becoming a co-participant in the co-construction of the relationship with the patient, rather than an outside observer | |
| C. | Making associations between an event or situation and the patient’s feelings | |
| D. | Providing empathy, understanding, and soothing to help the patient identify the other self-states |