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A client with schizophrenia is withdrawn and suspicious of others, and projects blame. the client's behavior reflects problems in which stage of development as identified by erikson?

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I believe the answer is: Trust versus mistrust

According to Erikson, Trust versus mistrust refers to the period when the people only give their trust solely for their primary caretaker.
Even though this stage is very common to happen in infants, Schizophrenics tend to experience this due to the malfunction in their brain processing which caused the extreme paranoia
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