The wife of a client with schizophrenia is worried about her 17-year-old daughter and asks the nurse
what symptoms mark the prodromal stage of schizophrenia. The nurse should respond by listing
behaviors such as
a. withdrawal, misinterpreting, poor concentration, and preoccupation with religion.
b. auditory hallucinations, ideas of reference, thought insertion, and broadcasting.
c. stereotyped behavior, echopraxia, echolalia, and waxy flexibility.
d. loose associations, concrete thinking, and echolalia neologisms.
A
Options B, C, and D each list the positive symptoms of schizophrenia that might be apparent during
the acute stage of the illness. Prodromal symptoms, the symptoms that are present before the
development of florid symptoms, are listed in option 1.
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