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A client's wife has been making excuses for her alcoholic husband's work absences. In family therapy, she states, His problems at work are my fault. Which is the appropriate nursing response?
 
  1. Why do you assume responsibility for his behaviors?
  2. I think you should start to confront his behavior.
  3. Your husband needs to deal with the consequences of his drinking.
  4. Do you understand what the term enabler means?
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Rationale: The appropriate nursing response is to use confrontation with caring. The nurse should understand that the client's wife may be in denial and enabling the husband's behavior. Codependency is a typical behavior of spouses of alcoholics. Partners of clients with substance addiction must come to realize that the only behavior they can control is their own.
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