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A 22-Year-Old Diagnosed with Schizophrenia Has Returned Home to Live

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A 22-year-old diagnosed with schizophrenia has returned home to live with his family after a period of time during which he stopped taking his medications and began living on the street. He has been taking his medications as ordered for about two weeks. The patient is driven to his appointment with the nurse case manager by his father, who reports that the patient is doing better now that he is "on his meds again." Which service will the nurse discuss with the patient as part of a comprehensive, community-based treatment program?


Definitions:

Unconditioned Response

A spontaneous, innate response to a stimulus that happens without any previous conditioning or learning.

Operant Conditioning

An approach to education that utilizes incentives and penalties to shape behavior.

Instrumental Conditioning

A learning process in which an individual alters behavior due to the association of actions with punishments or rewards.

Classical Conditioning

The process of learning where, through continuous pairing, a reaction initially provoked by the second of two stimuli is eventually provoked by the first stimulus.

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