Chapter 12: Schizophrenia

Question 1

What is schizophrenia?

Answer 1

a psychotic disorder in which personal, social and occupational functioning deteriorate as a result of strange perceptions, unusual emotions and motor abnormalities.

Question 2

A state in which a person loses contact with realist in kew ways.

Answer 2

psychosis

Question 3

What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 3

symptoms that seem to be excesses of or bizarre additions to normal thoughts, emotions or behaviors

Question 4

A strange false belief firmly held despite evidence to the contrary

Answer 4

delusion

Question 5

what is formal though disorder?

Answer 5

a disturbance in the production and organization of thought

Question 6

A symptom of schizophrenia.

Display of emotions that are unsuited to the situation;

Answer 6

INAPPROPRIATE AFFECT

Question 7

symptoms of schizophrenia that seem to be deficits in normal thought, emotions or behaviors

Answer 7

NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS

Question 8

FLAT AFFECT is

Answer 8

marked lack of expressed emotions.

Question 9

ALOGIA

Answer 9

decrease in speech or speech content. Poverty of speech

Question 10

CATATONIA

Answer 10

pattern of extreme psychomotor symptoms found in some forms of schizophrenia, which may include catatonic stupor, rigidity or posturing.

Question 11

“pathological deficits” or characteristics that are lacking in an individual like poverty of speech, blunted flat affect and social withdrawal are all examples of ________ symptoms

Answer 11

NEGATIVE

Question 12

“pathological excesses” like delusions, disorganized thinking and speech, heightened perceptions, inappropriate affect and hallucinations are all examples of _______ symptoms

Answer 12

POSITIVE

Question 13

The theory that schizophrenia results from excessive activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine

Answer 13

DOPAMINE HYPOTHESIS

Question 14

A group of antihistamine drugs that became the first group of effective anti-psychotic medications

Answer 14

PHENOTHIAZINES

Question 15

What is a schizophrenic mother?

Answer 15

A type of mother-supposedly cold, domineering and uninterested in the needs of others-who was once thought to cause schizophrenia in her child

Question 16

(Family Dysfunctioning)
:the general level criticism disapproval, and hostility expressed in a family. People recovering from schizophrenia are considers more likely to relapse if their families rate high in

Answer 16

EXPRESSED EMOTION

Question 17

What is milieu therapy?

Answer 17

humanistic approach to institutional treatment based on the belief that institutions can help patients recover by creating a climate that promotes self-respect, responsible behavior and meaningful activity.

Question 18

What are NEUROLEPTIC DRUGS?

Answer 18

conventional antipsychotic drugs; often produce undesired effects similar to the symptoms of neurological disorders.

Question 19

The discharge of large numbers of patients from long-term institutional care so that they might be treated in community programs.

Answer 19

DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION

Question 20

What is a case manager?

Answer 20

community therapist who offers a full range of services for people with schizophrenia or other severe disorders, including therapy advice, medication, guidance, and protection of patients’ rights.