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• Chronic
• Flat or inappropriate affect
• Silliness or giggling
• Bizarre behavior
• Impaired social interaction
limited contact with reality |
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Catatonic stupor
• Extreme psychomotor retardation
• Patient mute with posturing
Catatonic excitement
• Extreme psychomotor agitation
• Purposeless movements |
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• Delusion of persecution or grandeur
• Auditory hallucinations
• Argumentative, hostile and aggressive |
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• Bizarre behavior not meeting criteria outlined by other types of schizo
• With delusions and hallucinations |
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• Schizo symptoms
• Accompanied by strong symptoms of mood disorders
-Either manic or depressive |
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• Acute onset of psychotic symptoms (including hallucinations) following severe psychosocial stressor
• Symptoms for less than one month
• Client returns to full premorbid level of functioning |
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| Schizophreniform disorder |
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| Schizophrenia that lasts between one and six months |
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| existence of significant, non bizarre delusions |
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| Erotomanic delusional disorder |
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| Individual believes someone is in love with them, usually a person of higher status |
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| Grandiose delusional disorder |
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| Pt has irrational ideas regaurding own worth, talent, knowledge or power |
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| Jealous delusional disorder |
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| Idea that significant other is unfaithful |
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| Persecutory delusional disorder |
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| Believes that he or she is being treated malevolently |
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| Somatic delusional disorder |
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• Person has an irrational belief that they have some physical defect, disorder or disease.
• Ie bad body odor |
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| Shared psychotic disorder |
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• Delusional system developing in second person as result of close relationship with person who already has psychotic disorders.
• Folie a deux |
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| Extremely low levels of white blood cells. Symptoms include sore throat, fever, and malaise. This may be a side effect of long-term therapy with some antipsychotic medications. |
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| Restlessness; an urgent need for movement. A type of extrapyramidal side effect associated with some antipsychotic medications. |
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| Muscular weakness; or a loss or partial loss of muscle movement; a type of extrapyramidal side effect associated with some antipsychotic medications. |
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| Cessations of the menses; may be a side effect of some antipsychotic medications. |
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The inability to experience or even imagine any pleasant emotion.
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Associative looseness
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POSITIVE
Sometimes called loose associations, a thinking process characterized by speech in which ideas shift from one unrelated subject to another. The individual is unaware that the topics are unconnected. |
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| focus inward on a fantasy world while distorting or excluding the external environment; common in schizophrenia. |
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| A type of schizophrenia that is typified by stupor or excitement. Stupor is characterized by extreme psychomotor retardation, mutism, negativism, and posturing; excitement by psychomotor agitation, in which the movements are frenzied and purposeless. |
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In speaking, the delay of an individual to reach the point of a communication owing to unnecessary and tedious details.
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A pattern of speech in which the choice of words is governed by sounds. Clang associations often take the form of rhyming.
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False personal beliefs not consistent with a person’s intelligence or cultural background. The individual continues to have the belief in spite of obvious proof that it is false and/or irrational.
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| involuntary muscular movements (spasms) of the face, arms, legs, and neck; may occur as an extrapyramidal side effect of some antipsychotic medications. |
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The parrotlike repetition, by an individual with loose ego boundaries, of the words spoken by another.
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An individual with loose ego boundaries attempting to identify with another person by imitating movements that the other person makes.
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| A variety of responses that originate outside the pyramidal tracts and in the basal ganglion of the brain. Symptoms may include tremors, chorea, dystonia, akinesia, akathisia, and others. May occur as a side effect of some antipsychotic medications. |
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| Enlargement of the breasts in men; may be a side effect of some antipsychotic medications. |
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false sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli. Hallucinations may involve any of the five senses.
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misperception of a real external stimulus.
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primitive form of thinking in which an individual believes that thinking about a possible occurrence can make it happen
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New words that an individual invents that are meaningless to others but have symbolic meaning to the psychotic person
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| Neuroleptic malignant syndrome |
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| A rare but potentially fatal complication of treatment with neuroleptic drugs. Symptoms include severe muscle rigidity, high fever, tachycardia, fluctuations in blood pressure, diaphoresis, and rapid deterioration of mental status to stupor and coma. |
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| Antipsychotic medication used to prevent or control psychotic symptoms. |
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| An attack of involuntary deviation and fixation of the eyeballs, usually in the upward position. It may last for several minutes or hours and may occur as an extrapyramidal side effect of some antipsychotic medications. |
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A term that implies extreme suspiciousness. Paranoid schizophrenia is characterized by persecutory delusions and hallucinations of a threatening nature.
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Persistent repetition of the same word or idea in response to different questions.
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| Tremor, shuffling gait, drooling, rigidity; may occur as a side effect of antipsychotic medications. |
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Excessive demonstration of or obsession with religious ideas and behavior; common in schizophrenia.
positive |
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| Ejaculation of the seminal fluid backward into the bladder; may occur as a side effect of antipsychotic medications. |
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| Educational opportunities through role play for the person with schizophrenia to learn appropriate social interaction skills and functional skills that are relevant to daily living. |
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The inability to get to the point of a story. The speaker introduces many unrelated topics, until the original topic of discussion is lost.
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| Syndrome of symptoms characterized by bizarre facial and tongue movements, a stiff neck, and difficulty swallowing. It may occur as an adverse effect of long-term therapy with some antipsychotic medications. |
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A condition by which the individual with schizophrenia passively yields all movable parts of the body to any efforts made at placing them in certain positions
occurs in catatonic stupour
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| A group of words that are put together in a random fashion without any logical connection. |
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-disorganization of personality
-deterioration in social function
-lost contact with reality
may have hallucinations and or delusions
occurs with or without organic impairment |
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| suggests that schizo is caused by an excess of dopamine dependant neruonal activity. |
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Literal interpretations of the environment
o Its actually raining cats and dogs |
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| impairment in ability to initiate goal directed activity |
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| coexistence of opposite emotions toward same object, person or situation |
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