A mental health nurse assessing a client with schizophrenia finds that the client exhibits positive manifestations of the disorder after noting
a. avoidance of social contact.
b. blunted affect.
c. delusions.
d. lack of attention to hygiene.
C
Positive manifestations of schizophrenia include the most obvious manifestation of psychosis: auditory or visual hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking and speech. Avoiding so-cial contact would be a negative manifestation. Blunted affect and lack of personal hygiene are probably related to depression, although flat affect may be seen in schizophrenia also. However, the major manifestations are related to thinking and communication skills.
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