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A pschotic disorder has what three things?

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strange preceptions, unusual emotions and motor abnormalities

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Schizophrena is

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a psycotic disorder/ pshchosis

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What is psychosis?

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when individuals lose contact with reality

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What are two examples of psychosis?

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delusions, hallucinations

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How many people with pscychoss commit suicide?

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1/4

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what is the difference in men and women for Sz?

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age of onset?

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Sz is more requent for who?

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lower SES

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low SES is associated with?

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dowward drift theory

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symtoms of Sz are gruped into what groups?

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Positive, negative, psychomotor

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Positive ymptoms:

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excess thoughts, emotions, bizarre additions and behaviors

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negative symtoms

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defiecets of emotions and thoughts

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psychomotor symptoms

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unusual movements or gestures

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Delusitons are

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ideas believed full heartadly but have no basis on facts

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Wht is the most common form of dulusion?

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persecution

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Dulusion of persecution is

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being plotted against or being attacked

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dulusion of reference is

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attaching special meaning to actions or objects

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Dulusion of graendur?

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speccially empowered

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symptoms of positive symtoms is what five ones?

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dulusions, disorganized thinking and speech, heightened perceptions and inappropriate affect

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What is disorganized thinking?

4 things

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words that are made up
repeating words
rymes,
loose association

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What are hallucinations

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sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of external stimuli

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heightened perceptions are

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senses that are flooded by sights and sounds

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What are the four negative syptoms?

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poverty of speech
blunted and flat affect
loss of violation-no energy
special withdrawl

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What are the three psychomotor symtoms

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odd gestures/ akward movements

repeated grimance

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What are the three treatments for Sz?

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antipsychotic drugs
psychotherapy as an add on
community approach

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What was the first antipsyctoic drug?

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thorazine

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Who devoloped the frst psychotic drug and why?

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Labrit to combat allergies

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What do antisycotic drugs do?

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block dopamine receptors which calm patients

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What triggers Sz?

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excess dophamine

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When are the antipschotic drugs effective?

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when taken persistantly

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problems ith conventional drugs?

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over corrective as well as cause involuntary movements and prkisons

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pros of atypical drugs are what 4 things

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more affective towards neg, posm and no parkisons or involuntary movements

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What are the negatives of atypical drugs three things

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weight gain, dizziness, blood sugar evelautions

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What are the four types of psychotherapy?

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CBT,ACT,Family,and social therapy

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Four main parts of cognitive therapy?

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  • correct misinterpretations and how responds
  • make known there is a biological cause
  • challenege inaccurate ideas
  • how to cope with symtopms
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Two main parts of Acceptance and commitment therapy?

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Accept thoughts and sensations instead of judging

learn to live with the vices

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Family therapy emphazizes what three aspects?

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this therapy decreases relapse

  • having a supportive enviroment
  • families learn about the diorder and become more tolerant
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Two main parts of social therapy for Sz?

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  • help clients to address the social/personal difficulties in lives
  • social skills training
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What are the pros of community therapy?

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help provide great care and help peoplle live indepentaly

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Cons of cmmunity therapy

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quality of care isnt adequate

39
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What is assertive community treatment?

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menta health clinics

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What are the three types of coordinated services?

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  • short tern/ partial hospitalizzation
  • supervised
  • occupational training
41
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Investment in ________ _______ migh save money and lives in the lon run

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communty care

42
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Calatonia:

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extreeme psychomotor symtoms

43
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What are the three stages that Sz goes through?

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Prodomal
active
Redidual

44
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What is the prodromal stage?

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symtoms of Sz arent present yet

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What is the active stage?

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Sz symtoms are apparent and can be triggerered

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Redial stage is?

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the prodroma; functions but has yhr active phase lessens

47
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People have a better chance at recovering with what three things?

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when the onset is triggered by stress

  • devoloped during the middle ages
  • early treatment during prodromal stage
48
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To diagnos must have what?

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during one month must have either a dulustion, hallucination, or disorganized speech
-continues for 6 months

49
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What is type one sz?

two things

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has pos symtoms, and neorotranmitters abnormalities

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Type 2 has what symptoms?

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neg symtoms and brain structure abnormalities

51
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What is the biological theoritcal view?

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genes play a role with diathesis

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what is diathesis?

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gene defect on chromoomes

53
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can Sz be inhereted?

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no, only volunerabilities can

54
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What is the dophamine hypothesis?

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when there are overactive pathways in the limbic system of the brain.

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What is the evidense for the dophamine hypthesis?

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Amphetamine Psychosis which causes too many DA receptors

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Structural brain imaging does what four things?

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decrease in total brain tissue

  • enlarged vetricles
  • decreased size of hippocampus
  • decreased blood flw in frontal lobe
57
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By structural changes happening early in deveolopment, this does what?

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plays a role in onset of symptoms

58
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What causes birth complications in Sz?

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decrease flow of blood

59
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Sociocultural causes for Sz three

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social labeling
double blind
can never do anything right

60
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Cog reasons for Sz?

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person puts interpretatoion onto hallucinations

61
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Sz symtomms are adopted as

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a coping strategy bc of double blind hypthesis

62
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What is social causation?

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factors associated with low Ses

63
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What is social selection?

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Sz are more likly to become low Sz

64
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Where does Sz devolop from?

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diathesis stress model

65
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Sz from diathesis then

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triggers a stressor that triggers volunerabilty

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Diatheses is

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if you have volunerable genes but no stressor then no disorder

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