T2-Negative symptoms of Schizophrenia: Volition, Interpersonal functioning, Psychomotor behavior, and Associated features

Question 1

What is violation

Answer 1

1. Impairment in the ability to initiate goal-directed activity

Question 2

What are two examples of volition?

Answer 2

Emotional ambivalence

Deteriorated appearance

Question 3

Ambivalence in the client with schizophrenia refers to the coexistence of opposite emotions

Answer 3

Emotional ambivalence

Question 4

What do the opposing emotions of emotional ambivalence interfere with?

Answer 4

The persons ability to make even a very simple decisions

Question 5

Should I have coffee or tea for breakfast?

Answer 5

Emotional ambivalence

Question 6

Emotional ambivalence: Underlying the ambivalence is the difficulty the client with schizophrenia has in fulfilling a satisfying human relationship. The difficult is based on the ______–the simultaneous need for and fear of intimacy

Answer 6

Need-fear dilemma

Question 7

Personal grooming and self care activities may be neglected

Answer 7

Deteriorated appearance

Question 8

How does the client with schizophrenia appear if they have been having deteriorated appearance?

Answer 8

Disheveled and untidy and may be needed to be reminded of the need for personal hygiene

Question 9

What are two types of interpersonal functioning?

Answer 9

• Impaired social interaction

- Social isolation

Question 10

Cling to others and intrude on the personal space of others, exhibiting behaviors that are not socially and culturally acceptable

Answer 10

Impaired social interaction

Question 11

Individuals with schiz. sometimes focus inward on themselves to the exclusion of the external environment

Answer 11

Social isolation

Question 12

What are the 4 types of psychomotor behavior?

Answer 12

Anergia
Waxy flexibility
Posturing
Pacing and rocking

Question 13

Deficiency in energy

Answer 13

Angergia

Question 14

A condition in which the client with schiz. allows body parts to be placed in biazarre or uncomfortable positions

Answer 14

Waxy flexibility

Question 15

This symptom is manifested by the voluntary assumption of inappropriate or bizarre postures

Answer 15

Posturing

Question 16

A slow, rhythmic, backward-and-forward swaying of the trunk from the hips, usually sitting.

Answer 16

Pacing and rocking

Question 17

Is pacing and rocking a common psychomotor behavior in patients with schiz?

Answer 17

YES

Question 18

Once placed in a position, the arm, leg, or head remains in that position for long periods, regardless of how uncomfortable it is for the client

Answer 18

Waxy flexibility

EX: Nurse positions clients arm in an outward position to take a BP and when cuff removed, the client may maintain the arm in the position in which it was placed to take the reading

Question 19

What are associated features of schiz.?

Answer 19

Anhedonia

Regression

Question 20

The inability to experience pleasure

Answer 20

Anhedonia

Question 21

The retreat to an earlier level of development

Answer 21

Regression

Question 22

What associated feature is a particular distressing symptom that compels some clients to attempt suicide?

Answer 22

Anhedonia

Question 23

Regression, a ______ of schiz. is a dysfunctional attempt to reduce _____

Answer 23

Primary defense mechanism

Anixety

Question 24

What provides the basis for many of the behaviors associated with schizophrenia?

Answer 24

Regression