DFO Set Eleven Flashcards
Provide a definition of “positive symptoms” associated with schizophrenia:
Involves an excess of behavior or experiences which includes delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thoughts.
Provide a definition of “negative symptoms” associated with schizophrenia:
Reduction in typical thoughts or behaviour a person may have before developing their illness e.g. flattened affect, alogia, avolition, or anhedonia
Which of the following is a negative symptom?
a. Anhedonia
b. Word Salad
c. Neologism
d. Hallucination
a. Anhedonia
Provide a definition of thought disorder:
A disorder of cognitive organisation, characteristic of psychotic mental illness. Thoughts or conversation may be illogical or lacking in sequence, and may be delusional or bizarre in content
List 4 different negative symptoms commonly identified in schizophrenia:
- Anhedonia
- Flattened affect
- Loss of volition
- Associability
- Lack of insight
List two common signs or symptoms of psychosis:
- Delusions
- Lack of insight
- Disorganised thinking
- Hallucination
Provide a definition for delusion:
Fixed false thoughts or beliefs, in spite of invalidating evidence
Provide a definition for hallucination:
An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present, a distortion in perception
Define impoverished speech:
Alogia
Define social withdrawal:
Associality
Define an abrupt stop in the middle of a train of thought:
Thought blocking
Persistent repetition of words or ideas even when another person attempts to change the topic:
Preservation
Define decreased motivation:
Avolition
Define an inability to answer a question without giving excessive, unnecessary detail:
Circumstantial
Excessive speech at a rapid rate that involves fragmented or unrelated ideas:
Flight of ideas
Loss of pleasure in previously enjoyed activities:
Anhedonia
List 4 variables which are shown to influence the prevalence and incidence of schizophrenia:
- Migrant status
- Lower economic status
- Residing at a higher altitude
- Male gender
Which of the following have been shown to have links to the development of psychosis:
a. Poverty and inequality
b. Cannabis use
c. Unemployment and social isolation
d. Childhood abuse
e. B and D
f. All of the above
f. All of the above
Provide a definition for PTSD:
Development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically traumatic event that is generally outside the range of normal human experience
Incidence of PTSD is higher in men than women:
False
Of the traumatic events listed below which person is more likely to develop symptoms of PTSD:
a. Witnessing a car accident
b. Being involved in reoccurring earthquakes
c. Being involved in a motor accident in which there was a fatality
d. All of the above
c. Being involved in a motor accident in which there was a fatality
Those with a pre existing mental health condition are more at risk of developing PTSD:
True
List 2 factors which increase the susceptibility of a person developing PTSD:
- Low self-esteem
- Childhood abuse
- Unsupportive social environment
List 4 signs or symptoms of PTSD:
- Re-experiencing the event
- Heightened arousal
- Heightened vigilance
- Avoidance
The trauamtic life event which caused the PTSD must be either ____ or _____ .
- Life threatening
- Perceived as life-threatening
List 2 resilience factors which may protect a person against PTSD:
- Well-developed coping strategies
- Safe and nurturing childhoods
