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What are acute episodes of schizophrenia characterized by? (5)

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Delusions, hallucinations, illogical thinking, incoherent speech, and bizarre behaviour.

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During episodes of schizophrenia, how do sufferers act?

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They may still be unable to think clearly and lack proper emotional responses.

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What did Emil Kraeplin call schizophrenia?

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Dementia praecox; to be out (dementis) of one’s mind (praecox).

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What was Kraeplin’s idea of dementia praecox?

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There was something wrong with the body; it presented in childhood; it spiralled downwards.

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Who brought the term “schizophrenia”?

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Eugen Bleuler

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What were Bleuler’s 4 A’s for schizophrenia symptoms?

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Associations, affect, ambivalence, and autism.

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What were the problems with Bleuler’s association?

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Relationships among thoughts become disturbed, disrupted, and tangential.

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What were the problems with Bleuler’s affect?

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Emotional responses become flattened or inappropriate.

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What were the problems with Bleuler’s ambivalence?

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Holding conflicting feelings towards others.

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What were the problems with Bleuler’s autism?

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Withdrawal into a private fantasy world that is not bound by logic.

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What did Kurt Schneider believe about schizophrenia?

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That there were first-rank and second-rank symptoms.

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What are first-rank symptoms?

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They must be experienced in order to diagnose schizophrenia, mainly included delusions and hallucinations.

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What are second-rank-symptoms?

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Symptoms associated with schizophrenia that also occur in other psychological conditions. E.g., disturbances of mood and confused thinking.

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What is the main issue with first and second rank symptoms?

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The potential for misdiagnosis occurs.

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What percentage of the adult Canadian population does schizophrenia affect?

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1%

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Which gender is more often affected by schizophrenia?

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Both are affected equally, but men develop the disorder earlier.

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What is an indicator of the likely severity of schizophrenia?

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How early it develops.

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Where does schizophrenia place on the list of causes of disability worldwide?

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5th.

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What percentage of schizophrenics attempt suicide?

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40-60%

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What percentage of schizophrenics die because of suicide?

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10%

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How much more likely are schizophrenics to die from suicide compared to the rest of the population?

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15-25 times more likely.

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What are the 3 phases of schizophrenia?

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Prodromal, acute, and residual.

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What is the prodromal phase characterized by?

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Waning interest in social activities and increasing difficulty meeting the responsibilities of everyday living. The person deteriorates, but is not actively delusional.

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What is the acute phase characterized by?

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Active delusions and/or hallucinations. Presence of positive symptoms.

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What is the residual phase characterized by?

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Behaviour returns to the level similar in function prior to the first acute phase.

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What are the 6 categories of major features of schizophrenia?

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Disturbances of thought and speech, disturbances in form of thought, attentional deficiencies, perceptual disturbances, emotional disturbances, and other.

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Disturbances of thought and speech are characterized by what?

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Delusions.

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What are the types of delusions experienced by schizophrenics?

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Delusions of persecution, reference, being controlled, grandeur, thought broadcasting, thought insertion, and thought withdrawal.

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What are delusions of persecution?

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Thinking that people are out to get them.

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What are delusions of reference?

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Thinking that people are talking about them.

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What are delusions of being controlled?

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Believing one’s thoughts, feelings, or actions are being controlled by external forces (agents or devils).

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What are delusions of grandeur?

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Believing oneself to be more important than they really are. E.g., believing oneself to be Jesus on a special mission, or having a grand but illogical plan to save the world.

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What is thought broadcasting?

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A delusion that one’s thoughts about being transmitted to the external world so that people can hear them.

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What is thought insertion?

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A delusion that one’s thoughts have been planted into one’s mind by an external source.

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What is thought withdrawal?

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A delusion that one’s thoughts have been removed from one’s mind.

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What are 6 disturbances in the form of thought?

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Thought disorder, neologisms, perservation, clanging, blocking, and poverty of speech.

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What is thought disorder?

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The breakdown in the organization, syntax, processing, and control of thoughts.

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What are neologisms?

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Words made up by the speaker that have little or no meaning to others.

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What is perservation?

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Inappropriate but persistent repetition of the same words or train of thought.

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What is clanging?

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Stringing together words or sounds on the basis of rhyming.

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What is blocking?

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Involuntary, abrupt interruption of speech or thought.

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What is poverty of speech?

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Not speaking much, and what is spoken makes no sense.

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What is an example of an attentional deficiency?

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Hyper-vigilance: acute sensitivity to extraneous senses, especially during the early stages of the disorder.

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What are common perceptual disturbances?

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Auditory hallucinations, self talk, tactile hallucinations, olfactory hallucinations, and command hallucinations.

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What percentage of cases present with auditory hallucinations?

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60%

46
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What are command hallucinations? What percentage of cases present with them?

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Beliefs that you must do something, often hurting someone. 80% have them.

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What is the theory of the causes of hallucinations?

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Especially sensitive dopamine receptors.

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What is an example of an emotional disturbance?

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Flat affect: low levels of arousal.

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What are some other types of impairment?

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Stupor: a state of relative or complete unconsciousness in which the person is not generally aware of the environment.

50
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What is the categorical model of schizophrenia?

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There are two types of schizophrenia: type I and type II.

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What is type I schizophrenia?

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The presence of positive symptoms; abnormal behaviour such as hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder, disorganized speech, inappropriate affect, etc.

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What is type II schizophrenia?

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The presence of negative symptoms; absence of normal behaviour. Social skills deficit, social withdrawal, flat affect, poverty of speech or thought, psychomotor retardation, failure to experience pleasure.

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Are the two types of schizophrenia mutually exclusive?

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No, the may both present in a diagnosis.

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What is the psychodynamic perspective on schizophrenia?

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The person is regressing to an early period in the oral stage due to stressors.

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What is Harry Stack Sullivan’s psychodynamic theory of schizophrenia?

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Anxious and hostile interactions between parent and child lead the child to take refuge in a private fantasy world.

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What is the learning perspective (Ulmann and Krasner) on schizophrenia?

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If children grow up in a non-reinforcing environment, they never learn to respond appropriately to social stimuli.

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Why do learning theorists believe people present with sever schizophrenic symptoms?

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They model after the more severe schizophrenics because they are getting the most attention.

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What is the biological perspective on schizophrenia?

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Viral infections, brain abnormalities, genetic, and biochemical factors contribute.

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What is the dopamine theory of schizophrenia?

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They do not produce more dopamine, but rather have a greater than normal amount of receptors that are more sensitive.

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What drugs are used to treat schizophrenia based on the dopamine theory?

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Neuroleptic drugs that block dopamine receptors.

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What is the viral infection theory of schizophrenia?

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The theory that schizophrenia is a slow-acting virus that attacks the developing brain of a fetus or newborn child.

62
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What areas of the brain are indicated to affect schizophrenia?

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The hippocampus and the amygdala.

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What is the family theory of schizophrenia?

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That schizophrenogenic mothers, contradictory or mixed messages, communication deviance, expressed negative emotions, or stress from the family contribute to schizophrenic behaviour.

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What are schizophrenogenic mothers?

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Cold, aloof, but also overprotective and domineering mothers.

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What is the biological approach to treatment?

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The use of antipsychotics.

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What is an example of an antipsychotic drug used to treat schizophrenia?

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Phenothiazines such as Haloperidol.

67
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What is tardive dyskinesia?

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A movement disorder characterized by involuntary movements of the face, mouth, neck, trunk, or extremities.

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What is the psychoanalytic approach to treatment? How effective is it?

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Personal therapy is used, it is not well suited to treatment.

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What percentage of schizophrenics will go off their drugs? What percentage will relapse?

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90% go off drugs; 40% relapse.

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What is the learning-based approach to treatment?

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Selective reinforcement, token economies, and social skills training.

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What is psychosocial rehabilitation?

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Self-help groups and community programs run by nonprofessionals.

72
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What are family intervention programs?

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Programs that educate family members on the practical aspects of daily living with someone schizophrenic.

73
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What do early intervention programs yield? (7)

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Reduced disruption of activities, disruption of relationships, likelihood of hospitalization, disability and relapses, risk of suicide, improved capacity to maintain self-identity, and faster and more complete recoveries.

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What is anosognosia?

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Not knowing that you are sick; believing yourself to be normal and everyone else to be abnormal.

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