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19 Cards in this Set
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Schizophrenia is a devastating chronic mental illness characterized by
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a loss of contact with family
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3 kinds of symptoms
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positive (excessive or distorted behavior) negative (absence or deficit in behavior) disorganized (disorganized or bizarre behavior)
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beliefs that are fixed and firmly held despite clear, contradictory evidence
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delusions (+ symptom)
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a sensory experience that occurs witout input from the environmnt
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hallucination (+ symptom) auditory is most common
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Lack of energy
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avolition (- symptom)
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poverty of speech
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alogia (- symptom)
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lack of pleasure in interest in activities you used to enjoy
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anhedonia (- symptom)
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words and sentences don't make sense, patient jumps from topic to topic, go off on tangents, use made-up words or phrases
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disorganized speech
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patients engage in odd, bizarre actions, hoarding trash/strange objects, laughing or crying at inappropriate times
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disorganized behavior
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disturbances in movement
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catatonic behavior
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virtual absense of all movement
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catatonic stupor (disorganized symptom)
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Lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia
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1% equally common in males and females
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individuals have symptoms of both schizophrenia and a mood disorder
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schizoaffective disorder
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individuals hae symptoms of schizophrenia that last between 1 and 6 months
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schizophreniform disorder
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individuals have a persistent delusion but no other schizophrenic symptoms
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delusional disorder
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individuals have sudden onset of schizophrenic symptoms that less than a month (very rare)
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brief psychotic disorder
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Causes of schizophrenia
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1. genetics
2. neurobiolgoy - overproduction of dopamine 3. enlarged ventricles 4. negative prenatal experience |
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psychological causes of schizophrenia
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stress, high or low expressed emotion
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Treatment of Schizophrenia
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anti-psychogic (neuroleptic) drugs, social skills training, supportive employment, supervised housing
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