PSYCH EXAM 3 SCHIZOPHRENIA
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS
PRODROMAL - ANSWER-Prepsychotic phase
ACUTE PHASE - ANSWER-Positive, negative, cognitive symptoms
STABILIZATION phase - ANSWER-Decrease in severity
MAINTENANCE PHASE - ANSWER-Symptoms in remission
Persistent residual symptoms
rule out
•Drug and alcohol use
•Command hallucinations
•Belief system
•Comorbidity
•Medication regimen - ANSWER-•Verify medical workup to ____medical or substance-
induced psychosis
•Then assess for:
1.Autism (preoccupied with self, odd thoughts)
2.Affect (flat or blunted)
3.Associations (loose thinking; unrelated topics)
Ambivalence (difficulty making decisions - ANSWER-COURSE OF THE DISEASE:
ASSESSMENT
Bleuler's Four A's
Positive symptoms - ANSWER-Hallucinations
Delusions
Bizarre behavior
Catatonia
Formal thought disorder
Negative symptoms - ANSWER-Apathy
Lack of motivation
Anhedonia
Blunted or flat affect
Poverty and speech
Mood symptoms - ANSWER-Depression
Anxiety
Demoralization
Dysphoria
, Suicidality
Cognitive symptoms - ANSWER-Impairment in memory; disruption in social learning
Inability to reason,
Solve problems,
Focus attention
•Concrete thinking - ANSWER-ØImpaired ability to think abstractly
Thought broadcasting - ANSWER-Belief that one's thoughts can be heard by others
Thought insertion - ANSWER-Belief that the thoughts of others are being inserted into
one's mind
Thought withdrawl - ANSWER-Belief that thoughts have been removed from one's
mind
Delusion of being controlled - ANSWER-Belief that one's body or mind is being
controlled by someone else
Associative looseness - ANSWER-Associations are the threads that Taiwan thought to
another in one concept to another
Neologisms - ANSWER-Are made up words that have special meaning for the person
Clang associations - ANSWER-Is the meaningless rhyming of words
Word salad - ANSWER-Is a term used to identify a jumble of words that is
meaningless to the listener
Echolalia - ANSWER-Is the pathological repeating of another words by imitation and is
often seen people with catatonia
Echopraxia - ANSWER-Mimicking of the movements of another
Command hallucinations - ANSWER-The voices may make the person to hurt self or
others
SCHIZOPHRENIFORM DISORDER - ANSWER-symptoms resolve in less than six
months
-psychosis is present
-other substances have been ruled out
- possibility of returning to normal functioning
BRIEF PSYCHOTIC DISORDER - ANSWER--psychotic episode last usually days and
less than a month
-usually triggered by stress
-return to premorbid level of functioning
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS
PRODROMAL - ANSWER-Prepsychotic phase
ACUTE PHASE - ANSWER-Positive, negative, cognitive symptoms
STABILIZATION phase - ANSWER-Decrease in severity
MAINTENANCE PHASE - ANSWER-Symptoms in remission
Persistent residual symptoms
rule out
•Drug and alcohol use
•Command hallucinations
•Belief system
•Comorbidity
•Medication regimen - ANSWER-•Verify medical workup to ____medical or substance-
induced psychosis
•Then assess for:
1.Autism (preoccupied with self, odd thoughts)
2.Affect (flat or blunted)
3.Associations (loose thinking; unrelated topics)
Ambivalence (difficulty making decisions - ANSWER-COURSE OF THE DISEASE:
ASSESSMENT
Bleuler's Four A's
Positive symptoms - ANSWER-Hallucinations
Delusions
Bizarre behavior
Catatonia
Formal thought disorder
Negative symptoms - ANSWER-Apathy
Lack of motivation
Anhedonia
Blunted or flat affect
Poverty and speech
Mood symptoms - ANSWER-Depression
Anxiety
Demoralization
Dysphoria
, Suicidality
Cognitive symptoms - ANSWER-Impairment in memory; disruption in social learning
Inability to reason,
Solve problems,
Focus attention
•Concrete thinking - ANSWER-ØImpaired ability to think abstractly
Thought broadcasting - ANSWER-Belief that one's thoughts can be heard by others
Thought insertion - ANSWER-Belief that the thoughts of others are being inserted into
one's mind
Thought withdrawl - ANSWER-Belief that thoughts have been removed from one's
mind
Delusion of being controlled - ANSWER-Belief that one's body or mind is being
controlled by someone else
Associative looseness - ANSWER-Associations are the threads that Taiwan thought to
another in one concept to another
Neologisms - ANSWER-Are made up words that have special meaning for the person
Clang associations - ANSWER-Is the meaningless rhyming of words
Word salad - ANSWER-Is a term used to identify a jumble of words that is
meaningless to the listener
Echolalia - ANSWER-Is the pathological repeating of another words by imitation and is
often seen people with catatonia
Echopraxia - ANSWER-Mimicking of the movements of another
Command hallucinations - ANSWER-The voices may make the person to hurt self or
others
SCHIZOPHRENIFORM DISORDER - ANSWER-symptoms resolve in less than six
months
-psychosis is present
-other substances have been ruled out
- possibility of returning to normal functioning
BRIEF PSYCHOTIC DISORDER - ANSWER--psychotic episode last usually days and
less than a month
-usually triggered by stress
-return to premorbid level of functioning
