The therapeutic relationship is structured, time-limited and deliberately one-directional — and it only stays therapeutic while the frame holds. Read each moment and place it: first into one of the four phases, then onto the line between holding the frame, a boundary crossing, and a boundary violation. Every answer explains what the moment tells you about the nurse as well as the patient.
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Pick where this moment belongs.
Each answer names the phase task or the boundary rule behind it — and the tell that gives it away.