Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing

A nurse is assessing a patient with a psychiatric illness. The nurse interprets which patient statement as reflecting the concept of cognitive triad?

A. I always mess things up. No matter what I do, my whole world is a mess, and my future will be a big mess, too.

B. My sister is always the pretty one, her world is free of problems, and she?ll have a perfect future.

C. My bosses think they know it all, that they can control the world?s future, and that the entire planet is dependent on them.

D. My mother used to always tell me bad things happen in threes?like when someone you know dies, you just know two other people you know will die.

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