Schizophrenia Flashcards
A major form of psychotic disorder that
affects a person’s thinking, language,
emotions, social behavior and ability to
perceive reality
Schizophrenia
T or F
In dx schizophrenia, it needs at least 4 of 5 types of positive and negative symptoms
F
At least 2 of 5 types of positive and
negative symptoms
T or F
Schizo has characteristic symptoms and causes ocial or occupational dysfunction
(interpersonal relationships IPR, self-care)
T
To dx schizo duration must be
(continuous for at least 6
months)
Positive symptoms
- Hallucinations and Illusions Delusions
- Abnormal thought patterns or
perceptions - Bizarre behavior
Negative symptoms
- Affective flattening
- Anhedonia (a reduced level of interest in
activities you used to enjoy, and a
decline in your ability to feel pleasure) - Attention impairment
- Asocial behavior (withdrawn from
people) - Anergia (lack of energy)
- Autism
- Avolition (total lack of motivation that
makes it hard to get anything done)
Delusions
Persecutory
Religious
Grandeur
Ideas of reference
persistent, troubling, false beliefs that one is about to be harmed or mistreated by others in some way.
Persecutory
pt thinks he is a messenger of God, or thinks he is God.
Religious
when you believe that you have more power, wealth, smarts, or other grand traits than is true.
Grandeur
- the false belief that irrelevant occurrences or details in the world relate directly to oneself.
Ideas of reference
Disturbed thought processes
Looseness of association
Flight of ideas
Ambivalence
Magical thinking
Echolalia/echopraxia
Word salad
Clang association
Neologism
Thought blocking
Concrete association
Bleuler’s Four A’s of Schizophrenia
- Affective Disturbances
- Autism
- Associative looseness
- Ambivalence (good or bad)
Other A’s
- Attention defects
- Disturbances of activities
- Auditory hallucination
Maybe seen when a person exhibits clinical
symptoms of illogical thinking, incoherent
speech, delusions, or disorganized behavior after psychological trauma. Less than 6 months
Brief Psychotic Disorder
Develops in the second person as a result of a
close relationship with a person who has psychosis.
Induced Psychotic Disorder
delusion of plunder, infidelity, delusions does
not change
Delusional Psychotic Disorder
Characterized by depression or elation as the
psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia and MDD
Major depressive d/o
Schizoaffective disorder
When a person exhibits features of schizophrenia for more than one week but less than 6 months.
Schizophreniform
Schizophrenia subtypes:
Paranoid
Disorganized
Catatonic ECT
Undifferentiated schizophrenia
most common form of the schizophrenia.
Paranoid
T or F
Pts with schizophrenia are suspicious and violent.
T
Interventions for pt with paranoid schizo that is suspicious
- Promote trust
- Short interaction but frequent
- Food in containers (sealed)
- Prepare food in front of them
- Let them see the preparation of drugs
Interventions for pt with paranoid schizo that is violent
- Keep door open
- Position near the door and with distance of
1 arm length (patient-nurse) - Don’t touch
- Maintain eye contact