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40 Cards in this Set
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Psychotic |
Having very serious mental illness makes you act strangely or believe things that are not true |
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Positive symptoms |
Hallucinations Delusions Disorganization in thought and behavior |
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Delusion |
Fixed beliefs with no basis in reality |
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Grandiose delusions |
Belief that one is special being or possessing special powers. |
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Delusion of reference |
Belief that everyday events , objects, or other people have an unusual personal significance |
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Persecutory delusions |
False , persistent belief that one is being persued by other people |
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Hallucinations |
Perceptual experiences that are not real |
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Negative symptom types |
Involve the loss of certain qualiities of the person rather than behavior or thought expressed. |
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Avolition |
Inability to initiate or persist a common goal-directed activities |
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Alogia |
Inability to speak |
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Anhedonia |
Inability to feel pleasure |
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Affective flattening |
A loss or lack of emotional expressiveness |
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Disorganized speech |
Loose associations ,rapid shifting from topic to topic with no connection between one to the next |
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Tangentiality |
Disturbance in associative thinking in which one tends to digress readily from one topic under discussion to other topics that arise in the course of associations |
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Inappropriate affect |
An emotional expression disharmonious in quality or intensity with the person , event or idea that provoked it. |
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Catatonic immobility |
Disorganized behavior that reflects unresponsiveness to the environment |
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Prodromal symptoms |
Mild symptoms prior to an acute phase of schizo during which behaviors are unusual in peculiar not psychotic or completely disorganized |
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Residual symptoms |
Symptoms associated with schizo such as unusual beliefs or strange perceptions that are present for at least six months |
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Dopamine related causal theory |
Low dopamine in prefrontal area of brain May lead to negative symptoms |
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Mesolimbic pathway |
Sub cortical part of brain involving emotion and cognitive . To much dopamine can cause hallucinations and delusions |
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Viral infection fifth month gestation flu exposure |
The second Trimester to crucial development of the central nervous system fetus disruption in this phase of brain development can cause major structural defects found in the brains of some people with schizophrenia |
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Viral infection fifth month gestation flu exposure |
The second Trimester to crucial development of the central nervous system fetus disruption in this phase of brain development can cause major structural defects found in the brains of some people with schizophrenia |
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Stress effects |
May cause trigger new episodes in those who have schizophrenia. |
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Family interaction patterns |
1 factor can be expressed emotion 2. Believe that positive symptoms are forgiving because typical of schizophrenia. Negative symptoms are viewed as controllable by the person with schizo. |
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Family interaction patterns |
1 factor can be expressed emotion 2. Believe that positive symptoms are forgiving because typical of schizophrenia. Negative symptoms are viewed as controllable by the person with schizo. |
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Expressed emotion |
Family interaction style in which families are over involved with each other are overprotective of disturbed family member voiced self-sacrifice attitude to the disturbed member and simultaneously are critical hostile and resentful of this member |
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Family interaction patterns |
1 factor can be expressed emotion 2. Believe that positive symptoms are forgiving because typical of schizophrenia. Negative symptoms are viewed as controllable by the person with schizo. |
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Expressed emotion |
Family interaction style in which families are over involved with each other are overprotective of disturbed family member voiced self-sacrifice attitude to the disturbed member and simultaneously are critical hostile and resentful of this member |
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Social drift |
Explanation for association between schizophrenia and low social status says that because schizophrenia symptoms interfere with persons ability to complete education hold a job people with schizophrenia just downward in social class compared to family |
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Side effects tardive dyskenia |
A condition affecting the nervous system often caused by long-term use of some psychiatric drug such as
Involuntary movement of tongue face mouth or Jaw |
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Atypical antipsychotic |
Drugs that seem to be even more effective in treating schizophrenia than phenothiazine without same neurological side effects |
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Effectiveness of neuroleptic drugs |
Chloropromazine could control positive symptoms but some schizophrenics can't hold a job or build social relationships. Have significant side affects.
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Clazopine and risperdone |
Clazopine has helped many schizophrenics than phenothiazines reduce positive and negative symptoms and those who didn't respond to typical antipsychotic drugs
Risperdone introduced in past two decades. |
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Assertive community treatment programs ( deinstitutionalization movement ) |
Provide services for people with schizophrenia rely on the experties of medical profession social workers and psychologists to meet vatiety of patients needed 24 hours a day
Kennedy said to transfer care of people from private so I guess with hospitals to comprehensive community-based programs |
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Family intervention |
Teaches Basic education on schizophrenia with family members and coping with their love ones inappropriate behavior and disorders impacts on their lives |
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Schizoaffective disorder |
Experience both schizophrenic symptoms and mood symptoms meeting criteria for major depressive episode , manic episode , or mixed mania / depression |
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Schizophreniform disorder |
Set of psychiatric disorders related schizophrenia that vary along severity continuum |
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Schizotypal personality disorder |
Chronic pattern of inhibited or inappropriate emotion and social behavior as well as aberrant cognition and disorganized speech |
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Brief psychotic disorder |
Disorder characterized by sudden onset of delusions hallucinations disorganized speech and or disorganized behavior that last only between one day and one month after which the symptoms vanish completely |
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Meehls concept hypokrisia |
Schizoctaxic brain. The genetic formation need to manifest schizophrenia and the severe stressed environment |