Homework Help: psychology 220

Posted by G. KAY on Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 9:34pm.

# 1.66
(1 pts.) James is a person with schizophrenia and has delusions that the CIA is after him. He believes that everyone on the street is trying to kill him and, as a matter of fact, he has been brought to a psychologist by the police after being arrested for assaulting an elderly woman on the street whom he claimed was trying to kill him. Assuming that testing reveals that he truly is psychotic and not faking, where would a psychologist recommend he be sent?

A) a CMHC
B) a day treatment program
C) a halfway house
D) a psychiatric hospital
(my ANSWER is "D a psychiatric hospital") Am I right?

psychology 220 - Ms. Sue, Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 9:46pm
I should hope so.

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