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What are the biological factors in the biopsychosocial model?

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  • Genetics
  • Substances
  • Illnesses/Injuries
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What are the psychological factors in the biopsychosocial model?

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  • Developmental Experiences
  • Early relationship patterns
  • Current relationship patterns
  • Defense mechanisms
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What are the social factors in the biopsychosocial model?

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  • Current life experiences and stressors
  • Cultural factors
  • Religious/spiritual factors
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What three things are included in a general description of patients?

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A. Appearance
B. Behavior
C. Motor Activity

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Pathological imitation of movements of one person by another

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Echopraxia

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general term for an immobile position that is constantly maintained

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Catalepsy

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markedly slowed motor activity, often to a point of immobility and seeming unawareness of surroundings

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Catatonic stupor

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condition of a person who can be molded into a position that is then maintained; when the examiner moves the person’s limb, the limb feels that it is made of wax

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Waxy flexibility

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temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipitated by a variety of emotional states

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Cataplexy

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repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech

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Stereotypy

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excessive motor and cognitive over activity, usually nonproductive and in response to internal tension

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Psychomotor agitation

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subjective feeling of muscular tension secondary to antipsychotic or other medication, which can cause restlessness, pacing, repeated sitting and standing; can be mistaken for agitation

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Akathisia

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decreased motor and cognitive activity, visible slowing of thought, speech, and movement

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Psychomotor retardation

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difficulty in performing voluntary movements, as in extrapyramidal disorders

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Dyskinesia

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slowness of motor activity with a decrease in normal spontaneous movement

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Bradykinesia

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random and involuntary quick, jerky, purposeless movements

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Chorea

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slow, sustained contractions of the trunk or limbs; can be medication induced

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Dystonia

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(mood swings) oscillations between euphoria, depression, or anxiety

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Labile mood

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a person’s difficulty in describing or being aware of emotions or mood

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Alexithymia

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Mood vs. Affect

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Mood - a pervasive and sustained emotion, subjectively experienced and reported by the patient and observed by others; examples include depression, elation, anger

Affect - the observed expression of emotion, possibly inconsistent with the patient’s description of the emotion

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absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression; voice monotonous, face immobile

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Flat affect

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rapid speech that is increased in amount and difficult to interrupt

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Pressured speech

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false perception of orders that a person may feel obliged to obey or unable to resist (often dangerous)

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Command hallucination

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indirect speech that is delayed in reaching the point but eventually gets from the original point to the desired goal; characterized by an over inclusion of details and parenthetical remarks

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Circumstantiality

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inability to have goal directed associations of thought; speaker never gets from desired point to desired goal

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Tangentiality

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persisting response to a previous stimulus after a new stimulus has been presented; often associated with cognitive disorders

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Perseveration

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flow of thought in which ideas shift from one subject to another in a completely unrelated way; when severe, speech may be incoherent

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Loosening of associations

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rapid, continuous verbalizations or plays on words produce constant shifting from one idea to another; ideas tend to be connected but too fast for the listener to comprehend

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Flight of ideas

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a fixed false belief, based on incorrect inference about external reality, not consistent with the patient’s intelligence and cultural background, cannot be corrected by reasoning.

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Delusion

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pathological persistence of an irresistible thought or feeling that cannot be eliminated from consciousness by logical effort, associated with anxiety

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Obsession

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pathological need to act on an impulse that, if resisted, produces anxiety; repetitive behavior in response to an obsession or performed according to certain rules

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Compulsion

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ability to appreciate nuances of meaning; multidimensional thinking with ability to use metaphors and hypotheses appropriately

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Abstract thinking

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Pathological feeling of sadness

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Depression

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condition in which the emotional tone is in harmony with the accompanying idea, thought, or speech; also further described as broad or full affect in which a full range of emotions is appropriately expressed

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Appropriate affect

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disharmony between the emotional feeling tone and the idea, thought, or speech accompanying it

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Inappropriate affect

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reduction in the intensity of externalized feeling tone

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Restricted or constricted affect

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false sensory perception not associated with real external stimuli; there may or may not be a delusional interpretation of the hallucinatory experience

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Hallucination

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hallucination in which the content is consistent with either a manic or depressed mood; e.g. the manic patient would hear voices saying the patient is of inflated worth, power, and knowledge

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Mood congruent hallucination

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hallucination in which the content is not consistent with either a depressed or manic mood

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Mood incongruent hallucination

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misperception or misinterpretation of real external sensory stimuli

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Illusion

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defense mechanism involving the segregation of any group of mental or behavioral processes from the rest of the person’s psychic activity

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Dissociation

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partial or total inability to recall past experiences; may be medical or emotional in origin

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Amnesia

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amnesia for events occurring after a point in time

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Anterograde

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amnesia for events occurring before a point in time

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Retrograde

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