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Exam III Pt III Flashcards

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Prenatal virus exposure and schiz

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Exposure to influenza virus during pregnancy or viruses that enter fetuses brain and interrupt brain development, or remain dormant until puberty or adulthood when triggered

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Structural changes in the brain associated with schiz

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Enlarged ventricles
Smaller temporal and frontal lobes
Smaller amounts of cortical gray matter
Abnormal blood flow
Reduced activity in frontal cortex
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Enlarged ventricles (schiz)
associated mostly w what symptoms?
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May be a sign that parts of the brain did not develop properly or have been damaged, associated with negative symptoms of schiz

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Original dopamine hypothesis (schiz)

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Too much dopamine

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Problems with dopamine hypothesis (schiz)

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Many people don’t respond to dopamine lowering drugs

Even though dopamine is increased immediately

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Re formulated dopamine hypothesis (schiz)

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Excess dopamine activity in the metolimbic system and low dopamine activity in prefrontal cortex

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Atypical antipsychotic drugs (schiz)

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Often more effective than traditional drugs and suggest schiz is related to abnormal activity of both dopamine and serotonin

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State hospitals

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Made for patients who could not afford private care

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Milieu therapy

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Humanistic approach to institutional treatment based on belief that institutions can help patients recover by creating a climate that promotes self respect and responsibility

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Token economy programs

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Behavioral program in which a desirable behaviors are reinforced systematically by awarding tokens that can be exchanged for goods and privileges

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Antipsychotic drugs (schiz)

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Help correct grossly confused or distorted thinking, almost always a part of treatment

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Neuroleptic drugs (schiz)
more effective for what types of symptoms?
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Antipsychotic drugs that produce undesired effects similar to those of neuro disorders, more effective w positive symptoms

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Extrapyramidal side effects (schiz)

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Unwanted movements produced by conventional antipsychotic drugs

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Effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs

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Reduce symptoms in 65% or more and show to be more effective than any other treatment alone but patients often dislike the powerful effects of the drugs and refuse to take them

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Parkinsonian symptoms

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Conventional anti psych drug effect that reflects features of Parkinson’s

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Neuroleptic malignant syndrome

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Severe reaction from traditional anti psych drugs consisting of muscle rigidity fever and altered consciousness

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Tardive dyskinesia

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Appear in some patients after they have taken conventional antipsychotic drugs for a period of time

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Agranulocytosis

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Life threatening reduction in white blood cells sometimes produced by antipsychotic drug clozapine

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CBT for schiz

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Convince clients of the disorder 
Learn more about delusions 
Teach them to more accurately interpret symptoms
Techniques for coping
Main goal is acceptance
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Family therapy for schiz

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Guidance training and education about the disorder to develop more realistic expectations and become more tolerant in communication

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Social therapy for schiz

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Practical advice and problem solving
Social Skills
Helps them find work and appropriate assistance and housing

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Community approach

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Research shows they profit greatly from it but revolving door syndrome can occur

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Deinstitutionalization

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Exodus of hundreds of thousands of patients with long term mental disorders from state institutions into the community

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Features of effective community care

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Coordinated services
Short term hospitalization
Partial hospitalization 
Supervised residences 
Occupational training
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Community mental health center

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Treatment facility that provides medication psychotherapy and emergency care for psychological problems and coordinates treatment in the community

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Aftercare

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Program of post hospitalization care and treatment in the community

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Day center

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Program that offers hospital like treatment during the day only

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Halfway house

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Residence for people with severe mental problems often staffed by paraprofessional a

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Sheltered workshop

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

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Case manager

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Community therapist who offers a full range of services for people with severe psych disorders

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How has community treatment failed?

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Poor coordination of services

Shortage of services

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Social biology

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Study of biological and sociocultural factors that influence human populations

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Excess mortality and schiz

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People with schiz die younger, could be linked to medication effects

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Cancer and schiz

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Less likely to get cancer than normal population

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Suicide and schiz

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10%, often impulsive

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Schiz and violence

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Not common but media portrays it as such

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Schiz and residence

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About 50% of schiz patients live with family

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Prenatal hypoxia

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Increased risk of schiz

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Paraphilias

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Recurrent and intense sexual urges fantasies or behaviors involving non human objects children of experiences of suffering or humiliation

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Paraphilic disorder

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Individuals Paraphilia causes great distress or interferes with social or occupational activities or puts them or others at risk of harm

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Fetishistic disorder

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Recurrent and intense sexual urges that involve use of a nonliving object or nongenital part often to the exclusion of all other stimuli

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Masturbatory satiation

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Behavioral treatment in which a client masturbates for a long period of time while fantasizing in detail about a paraliphic object, trying to produce feelings of boredom linked to the object

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Orgasmic reorientation

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Procedure for treating certain Paraphilas by teaching clients to respond to new and more appropriate sources of sexual stimulation

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Transvestic disorder

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Urges that involve dressing in clothes of opposite sex

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Exhibitionistic disorder

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Urges about exposing genitals to others and may act upon those urges

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Voyeuristic disorder

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Urges to observe unsuspecting people in secret as they undress or spy on couples having sex and may act on these desires

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Frotteuristc disorder

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Urges that involve touching and rubbing against non consenting person

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Pedophilic disorder

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Urges about watching touching or engaging in sexual acts with children and may carry out these fantasies

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Sexual masochism disorder

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Urges that involve being humiliated beaten or made to suffer

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Sexual sadism disorder

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Urges that involve inflicting suffering on others

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Gender dysphoria

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Person persistently feels extremely uncomfortable about his or her assigned sex and strongly wishes to be member of opposite sex

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Explanations of gender dysphoria

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Genetic or prenatal factors

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Treatments for gender dysphoria

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Hormone treatments
Psychotherapy
Sexual reassignment surgery

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typical vs atypical antipsychotic drugs

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typical or first generation block dopamine and atypical second generation block dopamine and also affect serotonin levels

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