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Chapter 12: Schizophrenia Flashcards

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Positive Symptoms Of Schizophrenia

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Pathological excesses (bizarre additions),
Delusions,
Disorganized thinking and speech,
Heightened perceptions and hallucinations,
Inappropriate affect

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Negative Symptoms Of Schizophrenia

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Pathological deficits (lacking characteristics),
Poverty of speech,
Restricted affect,
Loss of volition,
Social withdrawal
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Psychomotor Symptoms Of Schizophrenia

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Awkward movements or repeated grimaces and odd gestures

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Biological Explanation For Schizophrenia

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Genetics,
Biochemical,
Abnormal Brain Structure,
Viral

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Genetic Biological Explanation For Schizophrenia

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Some people inherit a biological predisposition to schizophrenia and develop the disorder later when they face extreme stress, usually during adolescence or early adulthood,
Researchers studied relatives, twins, adopted schizophrenics and genetic linkage

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Biochemical Biological Explanation For Schizophrenia

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Certain neurons that use dopamine fire too often and transmit too many messages, thus producing the symptoms of the disorder

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Abnormal Brain Structure Biological Explanation For Schizophrenia (8)

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Many people have enlarged ventricles,
Causes more negative symptoms and fewer positive ones,
Smaller temporal and frontal lobes,
Smaller amounts of cortical gray matter,
Abnormal blood flow (reduced or heightened),
Abnormalities of the hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus and more

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Viral Biological Explanation For Schizophrenia

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Possibly…
Viruses before birth,
Entering the fetus’ brain and interrupt proper brain development,
Viruses remain quiet until puberty or young adulthood, when activated by hormonal changes they help to bring about schizophrenic symptoms

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Psychological Explanation For Schizophrenia

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Psychodynamic,

Cognitive

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Psychodynamic Psychological Explanation For Schizophrenia

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2 Psychological processes (regression and reestablishing)

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Cognitive Psychological Explanation For Schizophrenia

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Attempting to understand their unusual experiences (hallucinations, unreal sensations),
Agrees with the biological view

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Sociocultural Explanation For Schizophrenia

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Multicultural,
Social Labeling,
Family Dysfunction

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Multicultural Sociocultural Explanation For Schizophrenia

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African Americans have higher likelihood of receiving schizophrenia diagnosis than whites and the reason why is unknown,
Hispanic Americans are also at a higher likelihood

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Social Labeling Sociocultural Explanation For Schizophrenia

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Features of disorder is influenced by the diagnosis itself

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Family Dysfunction Sociocultural Explanation For Schizophrenia

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Family stress,

High expressed emotion

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Treatment For Schizophrenia

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Antipsychotic Medication,
Psychotherapy,
Community Care

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Antipsychotic Medication Treatment For Schizophrenia

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Neurocleptic drugs,
Produce undesired movement effects similar to the symptoms of neurological diseases,
Reduce symptoms in 65% of patients

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Psychotherapy Treatment For Schizophrenia

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Cognitive-Behavior Therapy,
Social Therapy,
Family Therapy

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Community Care Treatment For Schizophrenia (5)

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Coordinated services,
Short-term hospitalization,
Partial hospitalization,
Supervised residences,
Occupational training and support
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Delusions (Schizophrenia)

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Positive symptom,

A strange false belief firmly held despite evidence to the contrary

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Delusions Of Persecution (Schizophrenia)

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Most common,
Believe they are being plotted or discriminated against, spied on, slandered, threatened, attacked, or deliberately victimized

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Delusions Of Reference (Schizophrenia)

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Attach special and personal meaning to the actions of others or to various objects or events

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Delusions Of Grandeur (Schizophrenia)

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Believe themselves to be great inventors, religious saviors, or other specially empowered persons

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Delusions Of Control (Schizophrenia)

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Believe their feelings, thoughts, and actions are being controlled by other people

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Disorganized Thinking And Speech (Schizophrenia)

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Positive symptom,

Not able to think logically and may speak in peculiar ways

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Loose Associations (Schizophrenia)

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Type of disorganized thinking and speech schizophrenia symptom,
Rapid shifts form one topic of conversation to another,
Derailment

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Hallucinations (Schizophrenia)

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Positive symptom,

Experiencing of sights, sounds, or other perceptions in the absence of external stimuli

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Inappropriate Affect (Schizophrenia)

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Positive symptom,

Display of emotions that are unsuited to the situation

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Poverty Of Speech (Schizophrenia)

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Negative symptom,
Reduction in speech or speech content,
Algoia

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Restricted Affect (Schizophrenia)

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Negative symptom,
Show less anger, sadness, joy, and other feelings than most people,
Some show almost no emotions at all

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Loss Of Volition (Schizophrenia)

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Negative symptom,

Feeling drained of energy and of interest in normal goals and unable to start or follow through on a course of action

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Social Withdrawal (Schizophrenia)

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Negative symptom,
Withdrawing of social environment and attend only to their own ideas and fantasies,
Distancing one from reality

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Catatonia (Schizophrenia)

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Psychomotor symptom,
Pattern of extreme psychomotor symptoms found in some forms of schizophrenia, which may include catatonic stupor, rigidity, or posturing

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Catatonic Stupor (Schizophrenia)

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Type of catatonia,

People stop responding to their environment, remaining motionless and silent for long stretches of time

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Catatonic Rigidity (Schizophrenia)

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People maintain a rigid, upright posture for hours and resist efforts to be moved

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Catatonic Excitement (Schizophrenia)

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People move excitedly, sometimes with wild waving of arms and legs

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Regression And Reestablishing (Schizophrenia)

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Psychodynamic Explanation,
Regress to the earliest point in their development in which they recognize and meet only their own needs,
Once regressed, they then try to reestablish ego control and contact with reality

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Community Mental Health Center (Schizophrenia)

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Type of coordinated services,
Treatment facility that provides medication, psychotherapy, and emergency care for psychological problems and coordinates treatment in the community

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Aftercare (Schizophrenia)

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Type of short-term hospitalization,

A program of post-hospitalization care and treatment in the community

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Day Centers/Hospitals (Schizophrenia)

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Type of partial-hospitalization,

A program that offers hospital-like treatment during the day only

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Halfway Houses (Schizophrenia)

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Type of supervised residences,

Residence for people with schizophrenia or other sever problems, often staffed by paraprofessionals

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Sheltered Workshop (Schizophrenia)

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Type of occupational training and support,

Supervised workplace for people who are not yet ready for competitive jobs

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