When implementing cognitive therapy for Cecilia, the nurse should assist her in recognizing irrational beliefs and thoughts. This is the foundation of cognitive therapy - helping clients identify distorted thinking patterns, catastrophic thoughts, and unrealistic beliefs that fuel their anxiety and phobic responses. Once these irrational thoughts are recognized, they can be challenged and replaced with more realistic, balanced thinking. The other options are not specific to cognitive therapy: finding meaning is more existential therapy, positive reinforcement is behavioral therapy, and administering anxiolytic drugs is pharmacological intervention rather than cognitive therapy.

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Zambia

• ivwananji siwale – 29 pts

• Hallucinations and Delusions
• Antipsychotic Medications
• Nursing Care for Acute and Chronic Psychosis
• Reminiscence Therapy
• Positive and Negative Symptoms