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Rachel is a patient diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and believes that her roommate is “out to get her.” She also stated that two doctors were plotting to kill her on the unit. How does Rachel perceive her environment?

A patient diagnosed with schizophrenia has catatonia. The patient is stuporous, demonstrates little spontaneous movement, and has waxy flexibility. The patient’s activities of daily living are severely compromised. An appropriate outcome is that the patient will:

This condition can be fatal due to hyponatremia, confusion, worsening psychotic symptoms, and ultimate coma. It is characterized by insatiable thirst that leads in excessive intake of water. 

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

Polydipsia can lead to all these symptoms except:  

A patient follows unit staff and imitates al their movements. What is the patient exhibiting?

A psychiatrist treating a patient with schizophrenia asks the patient to interpret this saying, “People who live in glass houses must not throw stones.” The patient replies, “It means that people who live in glass houses must not throw stones because the hours might break.”  This is an example of:

The best-known modernist movement, _______________________, dates from the 1870s, when people were astonished by the flickering network of color paintings used by painters like Edouard Manet and Claude Monet, to render simple scenes from everyday life.

Schoenberg’s method of composing with the twelve pitches of the chromatic scale held them to a fixed order. An ordered sequence of the twelve pitches is a twelve-tone row, or series, hence the term _____________.

As melody grew more complex and harmony grew more dissonant, tonality grew more indistinct. Finally, some music reached a point at which no tonal center could be detected at all. This is __________music.