Chap12 Flashcards
Schizophrenia
Disorder characterized by severely impaired cognitive processes, personality disintegration, disturbance, and social withdrawal
Schizophrenia spectrum
Group of disorders that range and severity and that have similar clinical features including some degree of reality distortion
Psychosis
Condition involving lost contact with or distorted view of reality
Four categories of symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Positive symptoms cycle motor abnormalities cognitive symptoms and negative symptoms
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Delusions hallucinations disordered thinking incoherent communication and bizarre behavior
Poor insight
Failing to recognize the symptoms of one’s own mental illness. Common among those with severe symptoms and among those who had difficulties functioning before the onset of their mental illness. Common with people who have positive symptoms. Lack of awareness of psychotic symptoms highest with asociology, Delusions and restricted affect
Delusions
Falls personal believes that are firmly and consistently held despite disconfirming evidence or logic. Lack of insight particularly common among individuals experience illusions
Delusional themed
Grandeur, control, thought broadcasting, thought with drawl, persecution, reference, paranoid ideation
Paranoid ideation
Suspiciousness about the actions or motives of others
Persecutory delusions
Believes of being targeted by others or that people are plotting against them talking about their morale to harm them in someway. Accompanied by high levels of anxiety and worry as well as in reactions
Does confirmatory evidence
Information that contradicts the delusional belief. Often people with delusions of persecution avoid dangerous situations.Safe behaviors such as this may prevent them from encountering just confirmatory evidence.
Recovery model
A move away from the view that schizophrenia is a chronic disorder with an inevitability poor prognosis. If you schizophrenia is a chronic medical conditions such as diabetes or heart disease which may interfere with an optimal functioning, but does not define the individual
Capgras delusion
Where delusion involving a believe in the existence of identical doubles will replace significant others. Most common with Bree forms of psychosis that develop after an emotionally distressing event
Hallucination
Perception of a nonexistent or absent stimuli sensory miss perception. Maybe any one of the sensors
Cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum
Disordered thinking and communication speech. Loosening of associations. are not related to the conversation having no hierarchical structure organization. May also demonstrate difficulty with abstractions and thusrespond to words or phrases in concrete manner. Also over inclusiveness. Attention and memory problems and difficulty making decisions.Poor executive functioning such as deficits in inability to sustain attention, to absorb and interpret information and tomake decisions based on recently learned information. Cognitive symptoms are generally present before the onset of the first psychotic episode and persist even with treatment. Also found in nonpsychotic relatives of individuals with schizophrenia
Loosening of associations
Also called cognitive slippage another characteristic of disorganized thinking. Involves a continual shifting from topic to topic without any apparent logical or meaningful connection between thoughts
Over inclusiveness
Abnormal categorization in thinking
Grossly disorganized or abnormal psycho motor behavior
Experiencing bizarre and extremely distressing motor behavior. Could be a period of catatonia.
Catatonia
Condition involving market disturbance in motor activity, either extreme excitement or motoric inability. Include social withdrawal you to some pastoring negativism cataplexy which is Viccs posture, muscle rigidity waxy flexibility compulsive moments and cycle motor excitement
Excited catatonia
Very disorganized Haviar maybe aggressive agitated hyper active and left in the missions. May talk constantly and shout moving or running until they drop from exhaustion
Withdrawn catatonia
Extremely unresponsive for a long periods of stupor and mutism maintaining strange pastors or waxy flexibility
Waxy flexibility
Allowing their bodies to be arranged in almost any position and then remaining in the position for long periods
Negative symptoms
Inability or decrease ability to initiate actions or speech, express emotions or feel pleasure. May include avolition,alogia a sociology and a hedonism and diminished emotional expression. Common in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Negative symptoms are more common man and are associated with poor social functioning and progress
Avolition
Lack of motivation, inability to take action or become goal oriented
Alogia
Lack of meaningful speech
Asociality
Minimal interest in social relationships
Diminished emotional expression
Reduce display of observable verbal and nonverbal behaviors to communicate internal emotions
DSM five diagnosis of schizophrenia
Presence of two of the following: delusions hallucinations disorganize speech gross motor disturbances or negative symptoms symptoms. At least one symptom must be either delusions hallucinations or disorganized speech. Additionally requires a deterioration from a previous level of function and in areas such as work, interpersonal relationships, or self-care. Symptoms must be present most of the time for at least one month and the disturbance must persist for at least six months. May or may not have a psychosocial stress summer. Psychotic symptoms are gradual. Occasional returned premorbid functioning. Higher prevalence Among family members.