A cognitive strategy a nurse could use to assist a very dependent patient would be to help the patient:

A) reveal dream content.
B) take prescribed medications.
C) examine thoughts about being autonomous.
D) role model ways to ask for help from others.

Cognitive theory suggests that one's thought processes are the basis of emotions and behavior. Changing faulty learning makes the development of new adaptive behaviors possible. Revealing dream content would be used in psychoanalytical therapy. Taking prescribed medications is an intervention associated with biological therapy. A dependent patient needs to develop independence.