Parents ask a nurse how they should reply when their child, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, tells them that voices command him to harm others. Which is the appropriate nursing reply?
A) "Tell him to stop discussing the voices."
B) "Ignore what he is saying, while attempting to discover the underlying cause."
C) "Focus on the feelings generated by the hallucinations and present reality."
D) "Present objective evidence that the voices are not real."
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