Schizophrenia Flashcards
Disorder characterized by DISTURBANCES in thought, emotion, and behavior
Schizophrenia
- excesses and distortions
Positive symptoms
beliefs contrary to reality
delusions
sensory experiences in the absence of any relevant stimulation from the environment
hallucinations
- thought insertions
- thought broadcasting
- external force control
- grandiose delusions
- ideas of reference
Forms of delusions
behavioral deficits
Negative symptoms
lack of motivation
Avolition / Apathy
impairment in social relationships
Asociality
lessening experience of pleasure
Anhedonia
amount of pleasure experienced IN-THE-MOMENT
Consummatory pleasure
amount of expected or anticipated pleasure from future events or activities
Anticipatory pleasure
lack of outward expression of emotion
Blunted Effect
don’t talk much
Alogia
problems n organizing ideas and in speaking
Disorganized symptoms
difficulty performing tasks of everyday living
Disorganized behavior
abnormal psychomotor behavior
Movement symptoms
gesturing repeatedly
catatonia
adopting an unusual posture and maintain it for long periods of time
catatonic immobility
schizophrenic symptoms that last from 1-6 months only
schizoPHRENIFORM disorder
mixtures of symptoms of schizophrenia and mood disorders
schizoAFFECTIVE disorder
persistent delusions of persecution or delusional jealousy
delusional disorder
excess of dopamine causes schizophrenia
Dopamine theory
making low SES to be so stressful that those who are predisposed to develop schizophrenia readily develop the disorder
Sociogenic Hypothesis
people with schizophrenia drift into poor neighborhoods because their illness impairs them
Social Selection Hypothesis
cold and dominant, conflict inducing parent who was said to produce schizophrenia in the offspring
Schizophonogenic mother
children who developed schizophrenia had lower IQs
Retrospective studies
childhood characteristics that were associated with the development of schizophrenia in early adulthood
Prospective studies
identifies people with early, attenuated signs of schizophrenia
Clinical high-risk study
designed to teach schizophrenics how to successfully manage a wide variety of interpersonal situations
Social skills training
computer based training in attention, memory and problem solving
Cognitive remediation therapies
seeks to educate people about their illness, including the symptoms of the disorder
Psychoeducation
coordinate the range of medical and psychological services that people with schizophrenia need
Case management
- protected housing units
- halfway houses
- vocational rehabilitation
Residential treatment
critical comments, hostility, emotional overinvolvement
Expressed Emotion
