A. appropriate; persons familiar with group members are allowed self-help membership. B. appropriate; self-help groups are not professional and therefore are open to public knowledge. C. inappropriate, most self-help groups have a rule of confidentiality. D. inappropriate: the student should not have been allowed to attend the group.

A student nurse attends a self-help group as part of a class assignment. While there the student recognizes a family friend. Upon returning home, the student talks about the friend's attendance with the family. The student's actions can be described as...

C. Inappropriate; most self-help groups have a rule of confidentiality

Explanation:

HWhen it comes to self-help group, it is always believed that, there is a good degree of confidentiality such that, any issues shared among the self-help members will be kept "secret"

Thus, it is in appropriate for the student nurse to talk about the attendance of the friends with, the family.

The reason why confidentiality is considered important among self-help group members is because, it allows them to pour their hearts out, and such "secret" is best kept safe rather than let people outside the group know except the owner of the stories, that is the person involve, actually grant the permission of the story going public.