Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders Flashcards
1
Q
Mood Affect
A
what individual reports about emotional state vs. your description of the individual’s emotional response
- range
- intensity
- appropriateness
- stability
2
Q
Somatic Delusion
A
- believes that they have physiological condition they don’t have
3
Q
Thought Insertion Delusion
A
- experiencing one’s own thoughts as someone else’s
4
Q
Persecutory
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believes they are being persecuted
5
Q
Risk Assessment
A
- thoughts about harming self
- thoughts about harming others
- assess every shift
6
Q
Hallucinations
A
- auditory
- visual
- tactile
- gustatory
- olfactory
- *all five senses
7
Q
Sensorium
A
- LOC
- orientation
- intellectual ability
- memory
- judgement
- abstract reasoning
8
Q
What Impacts Judgement?
A
Culture
9
Q
Cause of Positive Symptoms in Schizophrenia
A
- Positive- dopamine
- Negative- lack of serotonin
10
Q
Positive Symptoms Schizophrenia
A
presence of symptom that should not be there
- Word Salad
- Neologisms
- Echolia
11
Q
Negative Symptoms Schizophrenia
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absence of behaviour that should otherwise be there
- Blunted affect
- Avolition
- Anhedonia
- alogia
12
Q
Dysphoria
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persistent low mood
13
Q
Avolition
A
low levels of motivation
14
Q
Anhedonia
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can’t experience pleasure
15
Q
Alogia
A
poverty of speech
