You Are Working in an Early Psychosis Program and Meet

question 12

Multiple Choice

You are working in an early psychosis program and meet with a new client, Jesus, and his family for an initial interview. In discussions with Jesus and his family, you discover that he tends to stay in his room with the lights dimmed and has dropped out of many of the activities he used to participate in at school. You have reports from his teachers that his grades have been dropping and that Jesus appears to be having difficulty staying awake and focusing in lecture classes but that he becomes somewhat reactive and irritable in his large laboratory class, which is very physically busy and loud. When you perform the adolescent/adult sensory profile with Jesus, which sensory processing pattern are you likely to see?

• A) High scores in low registration, sensory sensitivity, and sensation avoidance with low scores in sensation seeking
• B) High scores in low registration and sensation seeking with low scores in sensation avoidance and sensation seeking
• C) Low scores in low registration and sensory seeking with high scores in sensation avoiding and sensory sensitivity
• D) Average scores in low registration, sensation seeking, and sensation avoiding but high scores in sensory sensitivity

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