A patient presents in physical therapy demanding immediate assistance and becomes verbally aggressive with the staff when told he will need to wait.In what phase of psychosocial adaptation does this patient appear to be?

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The patient's behavior of becoming verbally aggressive with staff suggests externalized hostility, which is a phase of psychosocial adaptation commonly seen in patients who are in the anger and bargaining stage of grief or adjustment to a new diagnosis.

A Patient Presents in Physical Therapy Demanding Immediate Assistance and Becomes