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Unit 1 exam Flashcards

1
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When is Schizophrenia usually diagnosed?

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Late adolescents or early adult hood

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2
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In order to diagnose schizophrenia, the patient’s condition cannot be related to what?

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Any medical problems or drugs

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Schizophrenia causes distorted and bizarre..

Hint: T-heres, P-eople, E-ntering, M-y, B-rain.

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Thoughts, perception, emotions, movements, and behaviors

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4
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What are the two major categories Schizophrenia is divided into?

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Positive and Negative

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5
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What is another name for positive s/s?

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Hard or excess

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Why are positive s/s also known as “hard s/s or excess”

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Easily identified as bizarre by others.

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7
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What is another name for negative s/s of schizophrenia

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Soft s/s or deficit

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8
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Why are negative s/s also known as “soft or deficit s/s”

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Not so easily identified by others

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What are examples of positive s/s?

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Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking speech and behavior.

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What are examples of negative s/s?

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Flat effect, lack of volition, social with drawl or discomfort.

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What is the downfall in pt’s who develop schizophrenia earlier in life?

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Worse outcome than those who develop it later in life

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12
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What is the definition of delusions? and what kind of S/S is it?

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Fixed false beliefs/Positive

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What is the definition of hallucination? what kind of s/s is it?

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False sensory perception/Positive

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14
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What is ambivalence? What kind of S/S

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Contradictory beliefs on one thing/Positive

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What is associative looseness? What kind of S/S?

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Shift of ideas from one unrelated topic or another (Going off on a tangent)/ Positive.

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What is echopraxia? What kind of S/S

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imitation of movements/ positive

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17
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What kind of S/S is flight of ideas?

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Positive

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18
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What is alogia? What kind of S/S?

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Very little speech, Poverty of content/ negative

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What is anhedonia? What kind of s/s?

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Feeling of no joy, pleasure towards life, activities, or relationships. / Negative

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What is apathy? What kind of s/s?

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indifference toward people, activities, relationship/ negative

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What is anergia? What kind of S/S?

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Lack of energy/ Negative

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22
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What is asociality?

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social isolation

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23
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What is blunted affect? What kind of S/S?

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Restricted range of emotional feeling, tone, or mood/Negative

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What is catatonia? What kind of S/S?

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Physiological induced immobility marked by periods of agitation, or excitement./ Negative

25
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What is flat effect? What kind of S/S?

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Absence of facial expression/ Negative

26
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What is avolition/lack of volition? What kind of S/S

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Absence of will, ambition, or drive to complete task/ Negative.

27
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What are the two clinical courses a patient can experience in an immediate-term course

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  1. Client experiences on going psychosis and never fully recovers
  2. Client experiences episodes of psychotic symptoms that alternate with episodes of relatively complete recovery from the psychosis.
28
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What combination therapy is essential for pt with schizophrenia to effectively manage condition?

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Medication and therapy

29
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What is Schizophreniform disorder?

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pt who exhibits an ACUTE, reactive psychosis for LESS than 6 months necessary to meet DSM-5. If symptoms persist longer than 6 months, it is changed to schizophrenia.

30
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What is delusional disorder?

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One or more nonbizarre delusion (focus of the delusion is believable)

31
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What is brief psychomotor disorder?

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Client experiences sudden onset of at least 1 psychotic symptom, 1 delusion, hallucinations, disorganized speech or behavior, lasts less than a month to 1 day.

32
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What is shared psychotic disorder?

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2 people share the same delusion

33
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What is it Psycho-typical personality disorder?

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Odd eccentric behavior, including transient psychotic symptoms

34
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What are the types of delusions associated with schizophrenia?
Hint: there are 7

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Persecutory/paranoid delusions, grandiose, religious, somatic, sexual, nihilistic, referential

35
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Describe a persecutory/paranoid deulsions

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Belief that “others” are planning to harm him/her by spying, following, ridiculing, or belittling the client in some way.

36
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“My food has been poisoned and my room have been bugged”

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Persecutory/ paranoid delusion

37
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Describe a grandiose delusions

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Client claims to association w/ famous people or celebrities or client clams he/she is famous or capable of great feats.

38
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“I am engaged to christina aguilera. We are in love and are getting married soon”

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Grandiose Delusion

39
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Describe a religious delusion?

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Center around the second coming of christ or another significant religious figure or prophet

40
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“I am the messiah sent from God”

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Religious delusions

41
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Describe somatic delusions

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unrealistic beliefs about the clients health and bodily functions. Diagnostic testing does not change the belief

42
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Male client claims he is pregnant

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Somatic delusion

43
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Describe Sexual delusions

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Client’s belief that his/her sexual behavior is known; that the client is a rapist, prostitute, pedophile, or is pregnant. His/her excessive masturbation led to insanity

44
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Describe nihilistic delusions

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Clients belief that his or her organs are not functioning or rotting away or that some body part or feature is horribly disfigured.

45
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Describe referential delusions

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ideas of reference involve clients belief that TV broadcast, newspaper, or music have special meaning for them

46
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“I got the message from the president, he told me in secret code through the newspaper”

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Referential delusions

47
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Name the type of hallucinations

Hint: There are 8 kinds

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Command, visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, cenesthetic, kinesthetic

48
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Describe command hallucination

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Voices demanding the clinet take action, often to harm themselves, or others.

49
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What is considered the most dangerous type of hallucination?

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Command

50
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Describe auditory hallucination

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Involves the hearing of voices or sounds talking to or about the patient.

51
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What is considered the most common type of hallucination

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Auditory

52
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Describe Visual hallucination

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Seeing images that do not exist at all

53
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What is considered the second most common type of hallucinations

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Visual

54
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Describe olfactory hallucination

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Smells or odors

55
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Describe tactile hallucinations

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Sensations of electricity running through body, or bugs crawling on skin

56
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Describe Gustatory hallucinations

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Taste that lingers in pt mouth or the sense that food taste like something else, (may be metallic or bitter)

57
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Describe cenesthetic hallucinations

Give an example

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Feelings of bodily functions that are usually undetectable; I can feel my bladder making my urine

58
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Describe kinesthetic hallucinations

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When client is motionless but reports the sensation of bodily movement. Floating above the ground.

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