Here’s another climate diagram. Which biome do you think this site best exemplifies?  

A patient with schizophrenia approaches the psychiatric technician and says, “The voices are bothering me. They are yelling and telling me I am bad. Can’t you hear them?’  What would be the most helpful reply for the psychiatric technician to make?

A client has reduced facial expression, which of the following is the appropriate term?  

A patient who does not experience pleasure in activities that he use to experience pleasurable feelings from is experiencing: 

What is the most common type of hallucination in patients suffering from schizophrenia?

Identified by clinicians, this phase of schizophrenia occurs as brief as a few weeks or months before the first psychotic break.  

This comorbid disorder of schizophrenia occurs in nearly 50% of patients and is associated with nonadherence to treatment, relapse, incarceration, & homelessness.  

A patient is overheard saying the following over and over, “I rang my whang, it went gang, and my head went twang.”  What is the patient demonstrating?

A patient at PSH soon to be discharged, constantly tells his social worker that he wants to live on his own. The social worker was able to find him an apartment and teach him how to use the bus. The patient then asked, “But who will take care of me?” What fundamental sign of schizophrenia is this an example of?

When communicating with a patient expressing delusional thoughts, the psychiatric technician would appropriately communicate with the patient by: