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Positive symptoms

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Symptoms that Seem to be excesses of or bizarre additions to normal thoughts emotions or behaviors

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Psychosis

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A state in which a person loess contact with reality

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Persecutory delusions ( (schizophrenia))

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People believe they’re being plotted against spied on threatened or victimized

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Reference ( (schizophrenia))

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Attaching special and personal meaning to the actions of others or to various objects or events

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Grandiose illusions ( (schizophrenia))

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Believe themselves to be empowered persons or especially great at something

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Thought control ( (schizophrenia)

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Feelings thoughts and actions are being controlled by others

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Neologisms ( (schizophrenia))

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Made up words that typically have meaning only to the person using them

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Clang speech ( (schizophrenia))

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Using rhyme to express themselves

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Loose associations ( (schizophrenia))

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Common thinking disturbance in schizo characterized by rapid shifts from one topic to another

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Word salad ( (schizophrenia)

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confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases

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Inappropriate effect ( (schizophrenia)

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Showing emotions unsuited to the situation, like smiling at bad news

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Negative symptoms of schizo

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Deficits in normal thought emotions or behaviors

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Type II schizo

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Display more negative symptoms and may be tied largely to structural abnormalities in the brain

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Alogia ( (schizophrenia))

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Decrease in speech or speech content

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Avolition ( (schizophrenia))

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general lack of drive, or motivation to pursue meaningful goals

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Catatonia ( (schizophrenia))

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Pattern of extreme psychomotor symptoms

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Prodromal phase (schizophrenia)

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Symptoms are not yet obvious but deterioration is beginning

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Active stage (schizophrenia)

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Symptoms become apparent, may be triggered by stress or trauma in ones life

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Residual phases (schizophrenia)

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Return to a prodromal like level of functioning

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Diagnosing type I schizo

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Dominated by positive symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations

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Diagnosing type II Schizo

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Display more negative symptoms, such as restricted affects

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DSM 5 criteria for schizophrenia

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  • symptoms continue for six months or more
  • at least one of those months must be an active phase
  • must show deterioration in work, social life, or ability to care for themselves
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Prognosis of schizophrenia

10 yrs later

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most are independent
some have improved but still need work
10% commit suicide

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Early conceptions of schiz

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Wastebasket category for clinicians where the label was assigned to anyone who acted unpredictably or strangely

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Gender and age factors in schizo
earlier onset in men, women greater onset after age 30
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Brief psychotic disorder
Various psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations for less than 1 month
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Schizophreniform disorder
Various psychotic symptoms for 1-6 months
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Scizoaffective disorder
Marked symptoms of both schizo and a major depressive episode or a manic episode for 6 months or more
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Delusional disorder
Persistent delusions that are not bizarre and not due to schizo for one month or more
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Psychotic disorder associated with another medical condition
Hallucinations delusions or disorganized speech caused by a medical illness or brain damage
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Substance induced psychotic disorder
Psychotic symptoms caused directly by a substance
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Schizophrenia
Psychotic disorder in which personal social and occupational functioning deteriorate as a result of strange perceptions unusual emotions and motor abnormalities
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Hallucinations vs delusions
H is false sensory perceptions | D is false beliefs
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Negative symptoms
Symptoms
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Type II schizo seems to be more closely related to _____.
Structural abnormalities
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Type I schizo seems to be related more to ______.
Biochemical abnormalities
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Anhendonia
General lack of pleasure or enjoyment
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Flat effect
Show almost no emotions at all
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Blunted affect
Showing less emotions that most other people
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Malingering
Intentionally feigning illness to achieve some external gain
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Conversion disorders
Medically unexplained bodily symptoms affect voluntary motor and sensory functions
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Predominant pain pattern
When the primary feature of somatic symptom disorder is pain
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Hysterical disorders
Conveyed the belief that excessive and uncontrolled emotions underlie the bodily symptoms found in conversion and somatic symptom disorders
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Illness anxiety disorder
Experience chronic anxiety about their health and are convinced they have a serious medical illness despite the absence of substantial symptoms. Constantly check bodies for signs of illness and misinterpret
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Body dysmorphic disorder
Become deeply concerned about some imagined or minor defect in their appearance
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Somatic symptom disorders
mental disorder characterized by physical symptoms that suggest physical illness or injury – symptoms that cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition
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Facticious disorder
exaggeration or falsification of one's health, motivation is not personal gain
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Psychophysiological disorders
psychological condition causes or exacerbates physical symptoms
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Münchausen syndrome by proxy
mental illness in which a person acts as if an individual he or she is caring for has a physical or mental illness when the person is not really sick, usually their child
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Dissociative amnesia
Unable to recall important info, Usually of an upsetting nature, about their lives, not caused by physical factors
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Dissociative fugue
Persons forget personal identity and details of past but also flee to an entirely different location
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Depersonalization disorder
Marked by presence of persistent and recurrent episodes of depersonalization, derealization, or both.
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Dissociative identity disorder
Person develops two or more distinct personalities
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Reasons why DID is a controversial diagnosis
Incidences have skyrocketed, normal people under hypnosis can easily simulate symptoms of DID
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Psychodynamic theory of DID
Caused by repression, people fight off anxiety by unconsciously preventing painful memories or impulses from reaching awareness
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Behavioral theory of DID
Grows from normal drifting of mind or forgetting, and the response is caused by operant conditioning from the horrifying event
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State dependent learning theory of DID
Thoughts and memories and skills are tied exclusively to a particular state of arousal, so they recall a given event when they experience an arousal state almost identical to the state in which the memory was first formed, creating multiple personalities
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Self hypnosis and DID
Some children manage to escape from their abusive world by self hypnosis, mentally separating themselves from their bodies and becoming another person
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How research could test the validity of DID
Form careful description of DID compare groups Longitudinal research
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Clinical phenomenology of DID Putnam et. al Investigated what? What percent reported childhood sexual abuse? What else did they find?
Relation between childhood trauma and DID 85% reported abuse Also found # of alters correlated a severity of trauma
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False memory syndrome
condition in which a person's identity and relationships are affected by memories that are factually incorrect but that they strongly believe
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Is DID distinct from other psychiatric disorders? Surpppo et. al Compared what? Found what?
Compared DID patients with non dissociative psych patients | Found that people with DID reported more and earlier childhood trauma and more unconventional views of reality
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Somatization pattern of somatic symptom disorder
Experience long lasting physical ailments that have no physical basis
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Selective dissociative amnesia
Remember some but not all events that occurred during a period of time
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Localized dissociative amnesia
Most common in which a person loses all memory of certain events that took place within a limited period of time, often triggered by a disturbing occurrence
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Generalized dissociative amnesia
Cannot remember events within certain period of time or earlier life events
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Continuous dissociative amnesia
Forgetting continues into the present as well as events before and during the tragedy
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How sub personalities differ
Identifying features, abilities/preferences, physiological responses
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Mutually amnesic relationships
Sub personalities have no awareness of one another
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Mutually congnizant relationship
Each sub personality is well aware of the rest
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One way amnesic relationships
Some personalities are aware of others but the awareness is not mutual
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Co conscious sub personalities
Quiet observers who watch the actions and thoughts of other personalities but don't interact with them
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Derealization
Sense that ones surrounding are unreal or detached
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Depersonalization
Sense that ones own mental functioning or body is unreal or detached
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Treatment for DID
Recognize fully the nature of their disorder Recover gaps in memory Integrate sub personalities into one functional personality

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