NUR 318 Exam 2 Study Guide questions
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Diagnostic Criteria for schizophrenia: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅-Delusions
-Hallucinations
-Disorganized speech
-Grossly disorganized/catatonic behavior
-Negative Symptoms/Limited Socialization (Signs of disturbance for at least 6 months)
What is schizophrenia summed up? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Disorder in which the highest mental
functions (thought, emotion, etc.) are DRASTICALLY reduced
3 inescapable facts of schizophrenia: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅-Age of onset (usually between 18-21)
-Relapse/Onset almost ALWAYS r/t stress
-Efficacy of dopamine antagonist is therapeutic and does help to suppress the voice in their head and
overcome some of their struggles
True or false?...
Schizophrenia is very similar to split personality disorder. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅FALSE... it is a
deterioration of personality
The split occurring is between the cognitive and emotional aspects of the mind
Bleuler's 4 A's for schizophrenia: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅-Affect Disturbance (Flat, blunted,
inappropriate, bizzare)
-Associative (thought) Disturbance
-Autism (Detachment from external reality)
-Ambivalence (inability to choose)
, What was Bleuler right about r/t schizophrenia and what was he wrong about? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔✅-RIGHT: it does not allows follow with deterioration - some people can get better
-WRONG: it DOES always affect younger people (he mixed up later onset symptoms of Alzheimer's w/
schizophrenia)
Potential causes of schizophrenia: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅-Brain structure and functioning
(DOPAMINE!!!)
-Genetic Factors
-Stress?
-Environmental (pregnancy complications and exposure to infectious agents at a young age)
Law of quarters: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅-R/t prognosis and possible outcome of 10yr schizophrenia
disease course
-25% recover completely
-25% much improved
-25% moderately improved
-15% unimproved
-10% die r/t suicide or accidents
Prodromal Phase of Schizophrenia: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅-EARLY
-Usually late teens
-Social withdrawal and anxiety
-Phobias/obsessions
-Bizarre preoccupations
-Work and school impairment
-Inability to concentrate
-Lack of motivation
-Speech pattern changes
-Poor hygiene
with correct answers
Diagnostic Criteria for schizophrenia: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅-Delusions
-Hallucinations
-Disorganized speech
-Grossly disorganized/catatonic behavior
-Negative Symptoms/Limited Socialization (Signs of disturbance for at least 6 months)
What is schizophrenia summed up? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Disorder in which the highest mental
functions (thought, emotion, etc.) are DRASTICALLY reduced
3 inescapable facts of schizophrenia: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅-Age of onset (usually between 18-21)
-Relapse/Onset almost ALWAYS r/t stress
-Efficacy of dopamine antagonist is therapeutic and does help to suppress the voice in their head and
overcome some of their struggles
True or false?...
Schizophrenia is very similar to split personality disorder. - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅FALSE... it is a
deterioration of personality
The split occurring is between the cognitive and emotional aspects of the mind
Bleuler's 4 A's for schizophrenia: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅-Affect Disturbance (Flat, blunted,
inappropriate, bizzare)
-Associative (thought) Disturbance
-Autism (Detachment from external reality)
-Ambivalence (inability to choose)
, What was Bleuler right about r/t schizophrenia and what was he wrong about? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔✅-RIGHT: it does not allows follow with deterioration - some people can get better
-WRONG: it DOES always affect younger people (he mixed up later onset symptoms of Alzheimer's w/
schizophrenia)
Potential causes of schizophrenia: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅-Brain structure and functioning
(DOPAMINE!!!)
-Genetic Factors
-Stress?
-Environmental (pregnancy complications and exposure to infectious agents at a young age)
Law of quarters: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅-R/t prognosis and possible outcome of 10yr schizophrenia
disease course
-25% recover completely
-25% much improved
-25% moderately improved
-15% unimproved
-10% die r/t suicide or accidents
Prodromal Phase of Schizophrenia: - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅-EARLY
-Usually late teens
-Social withdrawal and anxiety
-Phobias/obsessions
-Bizarre preoccupations
-Work and school impairment
-Inability to concentrate
-Lack of motivation
-Speech pattern changes
-Poor hygiene
