Mental Health Care Newest Exam Test Bank ,with verified answers,100% correct.

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Mental Health Care Newest Exam Test Bank 2024
- 2025,with verified answers,100% correct.

 What does psychotic mean? - out of touch with reality



 what types of behavior does psychotic behavior lead to? - bizarre, odd, weird



 How many people out of 100 people are diagnosed with schizophrenia? - 1 out of 100 (1%)



 What does the term psychosis mean? - It is a broad term that is kind of the umbrella term
for different types of psychotic behavior (delusions/hallucinations)



 What is the most common type of psychosis? - schizophrenia



 If their is a genetic link of schizophrenia when is the onset? - typically earlier onsets are
genetically linked



 What is pathophysiology of schizophrenia? - - brain disease and there is brain dysfunction

 - there is still a great amount of research that needs to and is still being done to understand
this disorder

 - This is a biological and biochemical problem with structural anatomical alterations

 - decreased volume of gray matter in prefrontal cortex, temporal, enlarged ventricles, sulci

 (this is present before the onset of symptoms but difficult to detect)

 - dopamine accumulates in that synaptic junction so it isn't communicating messages

 - glutamate also accumulates in that synaptic junctions

 - serotonin accumulates as well



 Will stress causes schizophrenia? - No but it can activate it

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 Risk Factors: Schizophrenia - - genetic predisposition

 - 1st generation: 50% risk

 -2nd degree relative: 2-6%

 - Individual conceived when father is in advanced maternal age

 - No known family history

 - males: typically diagnosed earlier (18-25 y/o)

 -Females: (25-35 y/o)

 - psychosocial factors: early life adversity- increased where disparities in healthcare exist



 Risk Factors: Males are typically diagnoses at what age? - 18 years old - 25 years old



 Risk Factors: Females are typically diagnosed at what age? - 25 years old - 35 years old



 Risk Factors: my brother has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, what is my risk? - 50% risk



 Risk Factors: my 2nd degree relative has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, what is my %
chance of getting it? - 2-6% chance



 I am pregnant at 37 years of age and I heard that having children at an advanced maternal
age could increase my risk of schizophrenia....! Is my baby at risk?

 Prevention of schizophrenia -

 - eliminate adversity

 - environmental insults