Multiple Choice
During the initial assessment of a patient with schizophrenia, in response to the question "What brought you to the clinic today?" a patient's response of "the van" is an example of
A) Poverty of speech
B) Concrete thinking
C) Oppositional behavior
D) Tangentiality
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