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Psychiatric Signs and Symptoms Flashcards

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1
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it means there is an impaired reality testing, detached to reality and disorder of thought

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Psychosis

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T/F

Psychosis is a Symptom not an illness

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True

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What are the 5 criteria of Psychosis and explain

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  1. Hallucination (false perception)
  2. Delusions (false beliefs)
  3. Disorganized behavior (aggressive, unruly, unkempt)
  4. Disorganized Speech (no speech clarity or no words)
  5. Negative Symptoms (something should be present but is absent)
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shows no emotion, poker face

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flat affect

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lack of motivation

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avolition

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inability to experience pleasure

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anhedonia

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poverty of speech

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Alogia

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lack of ability to socialize

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asocial

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what are the 3 perceptual disturbances and explain

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  1. Hallucination - false perception without stimuli
  2. Illusions - false perception WITH stimuli (e.g. mic as bomb)
  3. Hallucinatory Gestures- actions that points out hallucination even if patient denies (talks to self)
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What are the 4 Thought content Disorders, explain

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(laman ng isip)

  1. Delusions-false beliefs
  2. Preoccupations- religious or sexual themes, always occupying the person’s thought, too engrossed)
  3. Obsessions- repetitive and specific intrusive thoughts
  4. Ideations- ideas that they always think of (SHEA)
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What is the most common Ideations

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Suicidal

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Type of delusion that cannot happen in real life

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Bizarre

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What are the 2 Thought Process Disorders and explain

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  1. Tangentiality- most common wherein there is no connection in answers of cx
  2. Looseness of Association (LOA)- moves from one point to another, and contain unnecessary details
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Type of Schizophrenia:
time frame 1 day to 1 month
not usually associated with negative sx, associated with stressor

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Brief Psychotic Disorder

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Type of Schizophrenia:

time frame 1-6 months

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Schizophreniform

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Type of Schizophrenia: time frame more than 6 months with active symptoms

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Schizophrenia

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17
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type of Psychotic Disorder where there is presence of psychotic sx and develops a major mood episode

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Schizoaffective Disorder

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T/F

in schizoaffective Mood episodes develop first before psychosis

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False

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19
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Most common type of condition that later on results to psychosis

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Systemic lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

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Time frame for Major Depressive Disorder and how many symptoms at least should be present

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at least 2 weeks; 5/9 sx with at least 1 core sx

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2 more symptoms of MDD

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Depressed mood and anhedonia

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3 psychological sx of MDD

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Suicidality
Feeling of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt
Difficulty concentrating

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4 somatic sx of MDD

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disturbance in appetite
disturbance in sleep
psychomotor agitation/retardation
fatigue

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Mood disorder where there is presence of
(+) manic episode and
(+/-) depressive episode

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Bipolar 1 Disorder

25
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time frame for manic episode and depressive episode

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1 week, 2 weeks

26
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Enumerate 7 manic symptoms

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  1. inflated self esteem/grandiosity
  2. decreased need for sleep
  3. more talkative/pressure of speech
  4. Flight of ideas
  5. Distractibility
  6. increase in goal-directed activity/psychomotor agitation
  7. excessive involvement in activities that have high potential for painful consequences
27
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mood disorder where there is:
(+) hypomanic episode and
(+) depressive episode

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Bipolar 2 Disorder

28
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time frame for hypomanic episode in BPD 2

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4 consecutive days

29
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Which among the bipolar disorders is less severe

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Bipolar II Disorder

30
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A thought content disorder where client has false beliefs

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Delusions

31
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delusions that can happen in extreme reality but simply not true

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Non-bizarre

32
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a thought process disorder where patient’s answer only partially connected with question, involves irrelevant details

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Circumstantiality

33
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Thought process disorder where pt has a lot of ideas but coming out of mind too fast for completion

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Flight of ideas

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Thought process disorder where cooperative patient does not answer particular questions

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thought blocking

35
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speech-related disorder where there is restriction in the amount of speech used; monosyllabic (either yes/no only)

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Poverty of speech/Laconic speech

36
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speech disorder there pt conveys little info (too vague, empty)

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Poverty of content of speech

37
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speech disorder where there is increase in amount speech, rapid/ too loud

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Pressured speech

38
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results to response to a threat that is unknown

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Anxiety

39
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results to response to a known threat

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Fear

40
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T/F

panic attack is a diagnosis

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false

it is a criterion

41
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fear in enclosed spaces

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Agoraphobia

42
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it is a spontaneous episode of severe anxiety characterized by a combination of psychological sx and physiological sx.

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Panic attack

43
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stress-related disorder with time frame of 3 days to 1 month

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Acute Stress Disorder

44
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stress-related disorder with time frame of more than 1 month

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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

45
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It refers to the development of an out of proportion emotion or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor

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Adjustment Disorder

46
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Time frame for Adjustment Disorder

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within 3 months of onset

47
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where pt is under influence of the substance

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intoxication

48
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pt suddenly stops use of substance and results to ____

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withdrawal

49
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t/f

Anxiety is a response to a known threat while fear is a response to an unknown threat.

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false

50
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t/f
Psychosis is never a normal response to any stressor. Regardless of trigger, a patient presenting with psychosis receives a diagnosis falling under the psychosis category.

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true

51
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These are false perceptual experiences that arise without a stimuli.

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Hallucinations

52
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correct sequencing of psychotic disorders according to increasing minimum duration of persistent signs of disturbance as established by their DSM-V diagnostic criteria?

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brief psychotic disorder – schizophreniform – schizophrenia

53
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Anita, a 85-year old patient, is currently experiencing severe cognitive decline as reported by her daughters. One time, she was found sleeping on the floor of their terrace because she forgot her way to her bedroom. She also often forgets the name of her daughters. What is her most probable diagnosis?

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Major neurocognitive disorder

54
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t/f

A manic episode may occur concurrent with psychosis

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true

55
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t/f

If the psychosis occurred first, the diagnosis given is schizophreniform disorder.

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false

56
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This refers to the abrupt cessation of a drug that has been used for a prolonged period and in heavy amounts.

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Substance withdrawal

57
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Patient has a lot of ideas which are connected to each other but are coming in and out of his/her mind too fast for completion. This psychiatric symptom is known as:

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Flight of ideas

58
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An individual alternately exhibits laughter and crying throughout a treatment session. This behavior should be documented as:

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Emotional lability

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