A client with a new diagnosis of schizophrenia displays poverty of speech, unchanging facial expression, and physical anergia. The nurse anticipates that the client would be prescribed which of the following?
A) A stimulant
B) An antidepressant
C) A traditional antipsychotic
D) An atypical antipsychotic
Ans: D
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Atypical antipsychotics relieve both the positive and negative symptoms (eg, alogia, affective blunting, avolition, anhedonia, and attentional impairment) of schizophrenia and are less likely to cause distressing extrapyramidal side effects typically seen with traditional antipsychotics.
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