Encouragement and appropriate praise should be given to hyperactive clients to help them increase their feelings of self-esteem. When they have acted appropriately, what is the best statement for the nurse to make in an effort to let them know of their improvement?

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Encouragement and appropriate praise should be given to hyperactive clients to help them increase their feelings of self-esteem. When they have acted appropriately, what is the best statement for the nurse to make in an effort to let them know of their improvement?

1. "You behaved well today."

2. "I knew you could behave."

3. "Everyone likes you better when you behave like this."

4. "Your behavior today was much better than it was yesterday."

1. "You behaved well today."

Explanation:

Hyperactive behaviour generally refers to excessive movement, being easily distracted, impulsivity, loss of attention, aggressiveness and similar behaviour. Typical habits may include talking too much, wandering, and fidgeting or running continuously.

Behavior therapy may help with hyperactivity disorder replace negative habits and actions with positive ones.

Praising the pateint will raise positivity in the pateint and increase their feelings of self-esteem, so the suitable statment for the patient is "You behaved well today."

The statement "You behaved well today"  is more powerful to make th epateint belive that what he did is good and will encourage him to do well in future as well.

Hence the correct answer is 1. "You behaved well today."