Which nursing statement would verbalize the implication of the client’s actions? A client is struggling to explore and solve a problem.
A. “You seem to be motivated to change your behavior.”
B. “How will these changes affect your family relationships?”
C. “Why don’t you make a list of the behaviors you need to change.”
D. “The team recommends that you make only one behavioral change at a time.”

The best statement that the person can say is

A. The nurse needs to say “You seem to be motivated to change your behavior.” This is good because the person will begin to feel that he is starting to make progress based on his own actions and not based on what other people are doing for him.

If a person would choose

B, this might make the person think twice about everything that he does because he needs to think about his family all the time.

C is not ideal also because the patient will be bombarded with so many behaviors that need to be changed at the soonest possible time.

D will make the patient feel that he is being limited to making some progress so he might not become motivated to do more.