While working with an older client, a nurse begins to think of the client as a grandparent and responds to the client as a grandchild. The nurse is developing what type of emotional reaction?

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The nurse, upon feeling that the client reminds the nurse of a grandparent, is developing countertransference. The nurse is developing an attachment to the client, thus treating the client as a grandparent. Empathy refers to the ability to feel what the client is feeling. Transference is the displacement of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors originally associated with a significant other from childhood onto a person in a current therapeutic relationship. Modeling is pervasive imitation, or one person trying to be similar to another.

While Working with an Older Client, a Nurse Begins to Think