A nurse is caring for a client in the outpatient mental health facility. Exhibits Drag words from the choices below to fill in each blank in the following sentence. The nurse should include in the teaching to the client that behavioral therapy willdropdown and dropdown

Rationale for Correct Choices • Encourage the client to face their fears in a safe environment: Exposure therapy gradually helps clients confront anxiety-provoking situations without avoidance. By facing the feared environment under controlled conditions, the client learns that the perceived danger does not occur, reducing fear responses over time. • Involve incremental exposure while using relaxation techniques: This therapy introduces the feared stimulus in small, manageable steps while teaching the client to use relaxation methods such as deep breathing or mindfulness. The gradual exposure combined with relaxation promotes desensitization and helps the client gain control over anxiety symptoms. Rationale for Incorrect Choices • Involves increasing their interpersonal effectiveness: This goal is part of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), used primarily for clients with borderline personality disorder, not specific phobia or claustrophobia. It focuses on communication and relationship skills rather than fear reduction. • Help the client to practice the new skill in a role-playing situation: Role-playing is a technique used in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for social or communication anxiety, not for specific phobias like claustrophobia, which require direct exposure to the feared stimulus. • Target behavior with a negative stimulus to extinguish undesirable: This describes aversion therapy, where unpleasant stimuli discourage unwanted behaviors, such as substance use. It is not appropriate for phobia management, which uses graded exposure and relaxation instead of punishment.