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primarily used for schizophrenia &
psychotic disorders
-also used as adjunctive meds for
antipsychotic management of tx-resistant depression
meds & other conditions
-not curative
-decrease/control symptoms/improve
quality of life
, a disturbance that must last for 6
months or longer, including at least one
month of positive symptoms or
negative symptoms
-neurodevelopmental, brain disorder
Schizophrenia -psychological condition involving
chronic or repeated episodes of
psychosis
cause: combination of genetics and
environmental factors
DX: based on clinical interview
Schizophrenia suicide
increases the risk homeless
of: jail/prison
set of symptoms in which a person's
mental capacity, affective response, and
psychosis capacity to recognize reality,
communicate, and relate to others is
impaired
, Delusions and hallucinations
-often called the "positive symptoms" of
psychosis
-Delusions are fixed beliefs - often
bizarre - that have an inadequate
rational basis and can't be changed by
Hallmarks of rational arguments or evidence to the
psychosis contrary
-Hallucinations are perceptual
experiences of any sensory modality -
especially auditory - that occur without
a real external stimulus, yet are vivid
and clear, just like normal perceptions,
but not under voluntary control
-hallucinations
-delusions
-disorganized speech
-disorganized behavior
Symptoms of -distortions of reality
psychosis: -inappropriate or very strong emotions
or apathy
-negative symptoms: diminished
emotional expression and decreased
motivation
, any type of psychosis.
-Perceptual distortions include being
distressed by hallucinatory voices;
seeing visions; reporting hallucinations
of touch, taste, or odor; or reporting
that familiar things and people seem
changed.
perceptual
-Motor disturbances are peculiar, rigid
distortions and
postures; overt signs of tension;
motor
inappropriate grins or giggles; peculiar
disturbances can
repetitive gestures; talking, muttering,
be associated with
or mumbling to oneself; or glancing
_________
around as if hearing voices.
-paranoid psychosis, the patient has
paranoid projections, hostile
belligerence, and grandiose
expansiveness. often occurs in
schizophrenia and in many drug-
induced psychoses
exhibiting an attitude of superiority;
hearing voices that praise and extol;
Grandiose believing one has unusual powers or is
expansiveness a well-known personality, or that one
has a divine mission, which is often seen
in schizophrenia and in manic psychosis
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Terms in this set (117)
primarily used for schizophrenia &
psychotic disorders
-also used as adjunctive meds for
antipsychotic management of tx-resistant depression
meds & other conditions
-not curative
-decrease/control symptoms/improve
quality of life
, a disturbance that must last for 6
months or longer, including at least one
month of positive symptoms or
negative symptoms
-neurodevelopmental, brain disorder
Schizophrenia -psychological condition involving
chronic or repeated episodes of
psychosis
cause: combination of genetics and
environmental factors
DX: based on clinical interview
Schizophrenia suicide
increases the risk homeless
of: jail/prison
set of symptoms in which a person's
mental capacity, affective response, and
psychosis capacity to recognize reality,
communicate, and relate to others is
impaired
, Delusions and hallucinations
-often called the "positive symptoms" of
psychosis
-Delusions are fixed beliefs - often
bizarre - that have an inadequate
rational basis and can't be changed by
Hallmarks of rational arguments or evidence to the
psychosis contrary
-Hallucinations are perceptual
experiences of any sensory modality -
especially auditory - that occur without
a real external stimulus, yet are vivid
and clear, just like normal perceptions,
but not under voluntary control
-hallucinations
-delusions
-disorganized speech
-disorganized behavior
Symptoms of -distortions of reality
psychosis: -inappropriate or very strong emotions
or apathy
-negative symptoms: diminished
emotional expression and decreased
motivation
, any type of psychosis.
-Perceptual distortions include being
distressed by hallucinatory voices;
seeing visions; reporting hallucinations
of touch, taste, or odor; or reporting
that familiar things and people seem
changed.
perceptual
-Motor disturbances are peculiar, rigid
distortions and
postures; overt signs of tension;
motor
inappropriate grins or giggles; peculiar
disturbances can
repetitive gestures; talking, muttering,
be associated with
or mumbling to oneself; or glancing
_________
around as if hearing voices.
-paranoid psychosis, the patient has
paranoid projections, hostile
belligerence, and grandiose
expansiveness. often occurs in
schizophrenia and in many drug-
induced psychoses
exhibiting an attitude of superiority;
hearing voices that praise and extol;
Grandiose believing one has unusual powers or is
expansiveness a well-known personality, or that one
has a divine mission, which is often seen
in schizophrenia and in manic psychosis
