Chapter 9 Schizophrenia Flashcards
Schizophrenia creates Major disturbances in what?
thought, emotion, and behavior
Disordered thinking is characterized as..?
Ideas not logically related
Faulty perception and attention
Emotions are displayed as?
Inappropriate or flat emotions
describe how movement or behavior are affected?
Disheveled appearance, erratic body movement
Schizophrenia dramatically increases the rates of what?
Suicide
Does schizophrenia affect men or women more?
Men
Life time prevalence is?
1% of the population
When is the onset of Schizophrenia typically
late adolescence or early adulthood
men slightly earlier
In what area is schizophrenia Diagnosed more frequently?
different ethnicity’s
May reflect diagnostic bias
How many symptoms should be present and for how long must they last before the diagnosis can be made?
Two or more of the following symptoms for at least 1 month; one symptom should be
either Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech:
One symptom must be either?
(1) delusions
(2) hallucinations
(3) disorganized speech
Name all symtoms
(1) delusions
(2) hallucinations
(3) disorganized speech
(4) disorganized (catatonic) behavior
(5) negative symptoms (diminished motivation or emotional expression)
6) positive symptoms (hallucin and delusion)
Positive symptoms are defined as?
excesses (increases movement, talking)
Negative symptoms are defined as?
deficits (lacking emotional expression is a deficit, the lack it)
Prodromal phase means
early signs and symptoms, it’s the time span leading up to the first obvious psychotic episode. when the first change in a person occurs until he or she develops full-blown psychosis
Active phase means?
The active phase, also called the acute phase, is characterized by hallucinations, paranoid delusions, and extremely disorganized speech and behaviors. During this stage, patients appear obviously psychotic.
What are the three phases of schizophrenia?
prodromal, acute or active, and residual.
Acute or active means?
is what people can see in a person…hallucinations, paranoid delusions, and extremely disorganized speech and behaviors.
Identifying prodromal period: if recognized and treated early on, the person may
may not always continue on to develop full-blown schizophrenia.
The residual stage of schizophrenia resembles?
Obvious psychosis has subsided, but the patient may exhibit negative symptoms of schizophrenia, such as social withdrawal, a lack of emotion,
What are some negative symptoms?
social withdrawal, a lack of emotion, and uncharacteristically low energy levels.
Three major clusters of symptoms are?
Positive
Negative
Disorganized
Positive Symptoms are?
Hallucinations (sensory disorder, hearing things) and delusions (thought disorder)
Negative symptoms are?
Avolition….Alogia..Anhedonia…blunted affect…asociality
Avolition means?
lack of motivation or ability to do tasks or activities that have an end goal,
Alogia means?
Reduction in speech
inability to speak because of mental defect, mental confusion, or aphasia.
Anhedonia means?
inability to feel pleasure. Consummatory pleasure
Anticipatory pleasure
blunted affect means?
difficulty in expressing their emotions [1], characterized by diminished facial expression, expressive gestures and vocal expressions in reaction to emotion provoking stimuli
asociality means?
Inability to form close personal
relationships. lack of desire to form relationships, social withdrawal
Disorganised symptoms are?
disorganized speech and behaviour