Schizophrenia Flashcards
Schizophrenia probably causes more white out of all the mental illnesses
Lengthy hospitalizations
Chaos and family life
Cost to individual government
Fear
What is a major concern in risk of in about 1/3 of people with schizophrenia
Suicide
What is psychosis?
A severe mental condition in which there is a disorganization of the personality, deterioration and social functioning in loss of contact with distortion of reality
Hallucinations and delusional, thinking
What are the four phases of schizophrenia?
Premorbid
Prodromal
Active psychotic phase
Residual phase
What is the pre-morbid phase
Signs that occur before there is clear evidence of illness and may include distinctive, personality, traits, or behaviors
Shy withdrawn, poor peer, relationships, doing poorly in school demonstrating antisocial behavior
What is phase 2 the prodromal phase
 Individual begins to show signs of significant deterioration and function. Social withdrawn is not uncommon some have sudden onset of OCD.
Recognition of behaviors provides opportunity for early intervention
Can last for 2 to 5 years
What is the active psychotic phase of schizophrenia?
Psychotic symptoms are typically prominent
Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized, speech, behavior, decrease level of functioning, and work relationships, or self-care
What is the residual phase of schizophrenia?
Active psychotic face symptoms are either absent or no longer prominent
Positive symptoms remain
Flat affect and impairment are common
Can the phases of schizophrenia go through exacerbations
Yes, they can be exacerbations and remissions the more likely this happens the more likely they are to have residual effects
Harder to get out of the active phase
What are the DSM five criteria for diagnosis of schizophrenia?
Two or more of the following each present for a significant portion of time during one month period. At least one of these must be one two or three.
1. Delusions.
2. Hallucinations.
3. Disorganized speech.
4. Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior.
5. Negative symptoms.
What is delusional disorder?
Presence of delusions experience for at least one month
Hallucinations are not prominent
Behavior is not bizarre
Types of delusional disorder include erotomanic grandiose, jealous, persecutory somatic, and mixed
What is a brief psychotic disorder?
Sudden onset of psychotic symptoms that may or not be proceeded by several psychosocial stressors
Symptoms less at least a day, but less than a month there is an eventual fall return to the preorbital level of functioning
What is substance medication induced psychotic disorder?
Prominent hallucinations and and illusions are directly attributed to substance and intoxication or withdrawal, or exposure to a medication or toxin
What is psychotic disorder due to another medical condition?
Prominent hallucinations and delusions that can be directly attributed to another medical condition
What is catatonic disorder due to another medical condition
Symptoms, such as super catalepsy, waxy flexibility, mutism in negativism or present catatonic disorder may be associated with with other psychotic disorders
Hepatic encephalopathy
Hypo or hyperthyroidism
Vitamin B 12 deficiency
What is catatonia?
Refers to a significant motor disturbance that may range from stupor no motor activity to excessive motor activity and agitation
What is schizophreniform disorder
Identical to schizophrenia, except that the duration, including prodromal, active and residual phrases, is at least one month, but less than six months
If you are diagnosed with schizophreniform can it ever be changed to schizophrenia?
The diagnosis has changed to schizophrenia. The clinical picture persist on six months.
What is schizoaffective disorder?
Signs and symptoms of schizophrenia, along with a strong element associated with a mood disorder
What is the decisive factor in the diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder?
The presence of hallucinations or delusions that occur for at least two weeks in the absence of a major mood episode
Prominent mood disorder symptoms must be evident for most of the time
A patient is admitted with a diagnosis of brief psychotic disorder with catatonic features which symptoms are sociable with the catatonic specifier
Strong, ego boundaries, and abstract thinking
Ataxia and a akinesia
Stupor Muscle rigidity and negativism
Substance abuse, and cache is
Stupor
Muscle rigid
Negativism
What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Delusions, disturbances, and thought content
Disturbances and thought process manifested in speech
Disturbances and perceptions hallucinations
What is a delusion?
Fixed false beliefs that are irrational, and that the individual maintains are true, despite evidence to the contrary
What is delusions of persecution?
Most common type of delusion in which individual believes they are being persecuted or male violently treated in someway
The FBI bugged my room and intense to kill me
What is a paranoid delusion?
Extreme suspicion of others in their actions, or perceived intentions
I won’t eat this food. I know it’s been poison.
Aggression and violence may occur
What is grandiose delusions
Individual has an exaggerated feeling of importance power, knowledge or identity
I am Jesus
What is a delusion of reference?
Someone is trying to get a message to me through the articles in this magazine. I must break the code so I can receive the message
What is ideas of reference?
Less rigid than delusions of reference for example, an individual with ideas may think that other people in the room, who are giggling, must be laughing about him, but with additional information there could be other explanations for their laughter
What is delusions of control or influence?
Individual believes certain objects, or people have control over his or her behavior
Dentist put a pill in my tooth now I received transmissions through the filling and control what I think and do
Common magical, thinking
What is magical thinking?
Ideas that one’s thoughts or behaviors have control over specific situation
I am sad so it is raining
What is somatic delusions?
The individual has a false idea about the functioning of his or her body
The doctor says I am not pregnant, but I know I am
What is Nihilistic delusions
The individual has a false idea that the self, a part of the self, or others of the world are nonexistent, or has been destroyed
The world no longer exist. I have no heart.
What is erotomanic delusions
Individuals falsely believe that someone usually a higher status is in love with them
Famous people are often subjects
Individuals may follow contact or otherwise try to pursue
What is a jealous delusion
Centers on the idea that a person sexual partner is unfaithful
Irrational and without cause, but individual will search for evidence to justify the belief
Individual may attack lover
What what does loose associations?
Speech by which idea shift from one unrelated subject to another
Individual is unaware topics are unconnected
We wanted to take the bus but the airport took all the traffic driving is the ticket when you want to get somewhere we have it all in our pockets
What is neologisms
Newly invented words that are meaningless to others, but have some ballot meaning to individual
What is clang association?
Choice of words is covered by sounds often form of rhyming
It is very cold. I am cold and bold. The gold has been sold.
What is word salad
Group of words that appear to be put together randomly without any logical connection
What is circumstantiality?
Individual delays in reaching the point of communication because of unnecessary and tedious details
Patient cannot get to the point to keep patient on track
What is tangentiality?
Refers to a veering away from the topic of discussion and demonstrates difficulty, maintaining focus and attention
What is preservation?
Persistently repeats the same word or idea in response to a different question
Person gets stuck on a particular thought