WEEK 4 SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM AND PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS Flashcards
fixed beliefs that are not
amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence
-clearly implausible and not
understandable to same-culture peers and do not derive from ordinary
life experiences
DELUSIONS (Beliefs)
perception-like experiences that occur without an external stimulus
Hallucinations (perceptions)
inferred from disorganized speech, loose associations, tangentiality,
incoherence, “word salad”
disorganized thinking (Speech)
grossly disorganized or abnormal movements that can interfere with daily living
Abnormal motor behavior:
an absence or lack of normal mental function involving thinking, behavior, and
perception
Negative symptoms
the failure to generate effective psychological coping
mechanisms in response to stress, resulting in personality disturbance or
disintegration, especially that which causes relapse in schizophrenia
decompensation
the first phase of psychosis, where the person starts to
experience changes in themselves, but have not yet started experiencing
clear-cut psychotic symptoms.
prodromal symptoms
Often the same symptoms as the active phase of
psychosis, but less severe
residual symptoms
“they
are after me”
persecutory delusions
“the world
will end on
November 13”
Nihilistic Delusions
“the
news anchor is
talking to/about
me”
Referential Delusions
thoughts
that their romantic
partner is unfaithful
Jealous delusions
thoughts were put
on one’s mind by
outside force
Thought insertion delusion
“I can
create a better
theory than
Einstein”
Grandiose delusion
“my
internal organs
were removed and
replaced with
rubber”
Somatic Delusion
