A client who is diagnosed with schizophrenia, paranoid type, tells the nurse, I will take these ...

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Rationale: Decisional conflict, which may be due to biochemical changes in the brain, is correct. The client is having difficulty deciding whether or not to take antipsychotic medication. The client is not exhibiting noncompliance, or refusal to adhere to the treatment regimen. However, noncompliance may occur as a result of ambivalence and decisional conflict. The client is not exhibiting body image disturbance though this is common in people with schizophrenia in which clients may lose the sense of where their bodies leave off and where inanimate objects begin. The client is not expressing magical thinking, which is characterized by the idea that events can occur because someone wishes them to occur.