ch 14 Flashcards
what drugs are used for people with schizophrenia?
antipsychotic drugs
to this day, at least ____% of people with schizophrenia do not receive adequate care
36
In the ____th century, many people with schizophrenia where institutionalized in _____ ______ ________
20, public mental hospitals
What were the goals of 20th century hospitals with schizophrenics as patients? (4)
- restrain the
- give food
- give shelter
- give clothing
who was the french physician in 1793 that declared that patients of mental hospitals deserved moral treatment?
Philippe Pinel
State-run public mental institutions in the United States.
state hospitals
New mental hospitals after Pinel’s ideas spread where usually located where? what were the goals of these places?
isolated areas
goals: protect patients from the stressed of daily life and offer healthful psychological environment to work with therapists
In the face of overcrowding, what did public mental hospitals revert back to?
keeping oder, inhumane treatment and punishment instead of humanitarian care
Patients were transferred to ______ ______, or chronic wards, if they failed to improve quickly, most of their patients struggled with which disorder?
back wards; schizophrenia
In 1935, a Portuguese neurologist named ____ _____ performed a revolutionary new surgical procedure, which he called a prefrontal leucotomy, on a patient with severe mental dysfunction
Egas Moniz
What happened during the procedure of lobotomy?
drilling 2 holes in either side of the skull and using an instrument to cut nerve fibers
Who developed the transorbital lobotomy? what happens during it?
Walter Freeman
a surgeon inserts a needle in the brain through the brain socket and rotate it to destroy brain tissue
what is the fatality rate of lobotomies?
1.5 - 6%
what are some problems lobotomies can cause? (6)
brain seizures
huge weight gain
loss of motor coordination
partial paralysis
endocrine malfunctions
poor intellectual and emotional responsiveness
extreme withdrawal, anger, physical aggressiveness, and loss of interest in personal appearance and functioning, a common pattern of decline after a lobotomy
social breakdown syndrome
According to humanistic theorists, why do institutionalized patients deteriorate?
they are deprived of opportunities to exercise independence, responsibility, positive self-regard, and meaningful activities
A humanistic approach to institutional treatment based on the premise that institutions can help patients recover by creating a climate that promotes self-respect, responsible behavior, and meaningful activity
milieu therapy
What was the pioneer of the milieu therapy approach?
Maxwell Jones
what does research show about patients who receive milieu therapy in hospital programs?
they leave the hospital at higher rates than those who received basic care
the use of procedures like warm baths, cold showers, and wet sheets to treat mental disorders
wet cure hydrotherapy
what psych concept did behavior-focused researchers discover could help change the behavior of schizophrenia patients in hospital wards
operant conditioning
A behavior-focused program in which a person’s desirable behaviors are reinforced systematically by the awarding of tokens that can be exchanged for goods or privileges
token economy programs
how does the reward system work for token economy programs? for example, what can patients do with the tokens?
patients are rewards when they behave acceptably and not rewarded when they behave unacceptably
tokens can be exchanged for food, privileges, and so forth
what are some examples of acceptable behaviors in a token exchange economy?
caring for oneself and doing chose, going to a work program, speaking normally, following rules
What did researchers find about the effectiveness of token economies? what percent of patients with the token program are released?
token economies do help reduce psychotic and related behaviors
98%
What is the uncontrolled limitation of token economies?
most of the token economies employed in hospitals are uncontrolled. This means that patients improvements can only be compared to their past behaviors, so maybe increase in staff attention may be improving them, not the token economy
what are the ethical limitations and concerns of the token economy theory?
there are some things in life that humans should be automatically entitled to, patients should not have to act a certain way to get them as ‘rewards’
what are some rights patients are entitled to in treatment programs?
food, storage space, furniture, freedom of movement
what is once concern regarding the operant conditioning principle of a token economy?
Are operant conditioning procedures changing a patient’s psychotic thoughts and perceptions or simply improving the patient’s ability to imitate normal behavior?
what is a limitation of token economy regarding when patients are released from the hospital?
it is difficult for patients to make a satisfactory transition from hospital token economy programs to community living
Drugs that help correct grossly confused or distorted thinking
anti-psychotic drugs
The discovery of antipsychotic medications dates back to the 1940s, when researchers developed the first __________ drugs to combat allergies
antihistamine
Who discovered phenothiazines?
Henri Laborit (French)
which phenothiazine antihistamine was found to be calming for people withs severe psychological disorders?
chlorpromazine
what is the trade name for chlorpromazine in the US?
Thorazine
what time period are first-generation antipsychotic drugs referred to ?
1960-1980s
what time are second-generation antipsychotic drugs referred to?
after 1980s
An alternative term for first-generation antipsychotic drugs, so called because they often produce undesired effects similar to the symptoms of neurological disorders. The term is used less often in today’s clinical literature.
neuroleptic drugs
how do antipsychotic drugs reduce symptoms?
blocking excessive activity of neurotransmitter dopamine
what are the 4 best down first-generation antipsychotic drugs? (Trade Names)
Mellaril
prolixin
Stelazine
Haldol
Research has shown that antipsychotic drugs reduce symptoms in around ___ percent of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia
70
when used alone, which is the most effective for schizophrenia?
a) antipsychotic drugs
b) psychotherapy
c) milieu therapy
d) electroconvulsive therapy
a
how long does it take meds to bring maximum improvement?
6 months
what might prematurely withdrawing from antipsychotic meds for schizophrenias do to the drug takers?
they may relapse
antipsychotic drugs reduce ___________ symptoms more completely/quickly than __________ symptoms
positive, negative
people whose symptoms are largely __________ generally have better rates of recovery from schizophrenia than those with predominantly _________ symptoms
positive, negative
why might a schizophrenia patient refuse to take antipsychotic drugs?
because of the side effects
Unwanted movements, such as severe shaking, bizarre-looking grimaces, twisting of the body, and extreme restlessness, sometimes produced by antipsychotic drugs.
extrapyramidal effects
what are 3 examples of unwanted side effects produced by antipsychotic drugs?
parkinsonian and related disorders
neuroleptic malignant syndrome
tardive dyskinesia
reactions that closely resemble the features of the neurological disorder Parkinson’s disease caused by antipsychotic drugs
Parkinsonian symptoms