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| i. Being unable to tell the difference between what is real and unreal |
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| Positive symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thought and speech, disorganized catonic behavior |
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| Difference between schizophrenia and mood disorder |
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1. If symptoms occur during only periods of mood depression or mania then diagnosed mood disorder.
2. If symptoms occur during absence of depression or mania, then appropriate diagnosis schizophrenia. |
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1. Believed to be true but are unlikely and often impossible.
2. Also tend to preoccupy person over long times |
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| a. Believe being watched or tormented by people they know, most common. |
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| a. Random events or comments directed at them |
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| a. Believe they are a special person or possesses special powers. |
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| Delusion of thought insertion |
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| a. Belief ones thoughts are controlled by outside forces |
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| Unreal perceptual or sensory experiences |
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a. Most common, hear voices accusing or threatening.
b. People with schizophrenia may talk back. |
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| a. Seeing something not real, often harmful |
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| a. Perception something happening to outside of body, like bugs crawling down back. |
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| a. Perception something happening inside body. |
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| Disorganized thought and speech |
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1. Formal thought disorder
2. Schizophrenics often slip from one topic to another without coherent transition. |
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| a. So disorganized that aren’t coherent to listener. |
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a. Capacity to hold information and manipulate it.
b. Schizophrenics have problems with this, |
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| Disorganized or catonic behavior |
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1. Engage in unpredictable behavior that is untriggered.
2. Engage in socially unacceptable behavior, |
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| a. Becomes wildly agitated for no specific reason and is hard to subdue. |
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| Affective flattening, Alogia, Avolition |
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| 1. Reduction or absence in emotional response to enviormen |
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| evere reduction or complete absense of speech. |
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| 1. Inability to persist at common goal oriented tasks. |
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| 1. May show innapropiate emotions based on stimulus. |
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| 1. A loss of interest in everything in life. |
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| Modern requirements for diagnosis |
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i. Six months with some symptoms
ii. Must be one month of acute symptoms during which two or more broad groups of symptoms exist and impair life. |
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| Prodromal and residual symptoms |
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Definition
1. Prodromal
a. Present before people go into acute phase.
2. Residual
a. Present after acute phase |
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1. Mix of schizophrenia and mood disorder
2. Difference between psychotic disorder experience some symptoms without mood disorders present |
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i. Have tons of hallucinations and delusions with persecution and grandiosity often times.
ii. Not as much grossly disorganized speech or behavior. |
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| Disorganized Schizophrenia |
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i. Thoughts and behaviors are severely disorganized
ii. Show lack of emotional response or inappropriate emotional response. |
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| i. Very rare, show variety of motor behaviors and ways of speakikng that are almost totally unresponsive to enviorment. |
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| Catonic Schizophrenia symptoms |
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1. Catonic stupor
2. Catonic excitement
3. Complete mutinism
4. Odd motor movements or mannerisms
5. Echolalia (Sensesless repetition of words) or echoproaxia (repetitive imitation of others moves. |
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| Undifferentiated schizophrenia |
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i. Have symptoms of others but cannot be diagnosed as one of the other schizophrenias.
ii. Early in life, tend to be chronic |
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| i. Have had at least one acute episode of acute positive symptoms, but do not currently have any positive symptoms. |
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| Family schizophrenia studies |
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1. Monozygotic twins have greatest risk of developing schizophrenia.
2. As genetic simililarities decrease, so do chances. |
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| 1. Smaller with less activity in some schizophrenics |
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1. Oxygen deprivation during labor and delivery.
2. 30 percent of schizophrenics had this. |
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| i. Higher rate for people whose mothers had flu while pregnant. |
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1. Excess levels of dopamine in the brain increase rate.
2. Drugs that increase dopamine increase symptoms.
3. Only seems to affect positive symptoms |
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| i. Schizophrenics more likely to live in harmful enviorment than non schizophrenics. |
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| Stress and relapse affect |
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| i. Stress may not cause disease but may trigger new episodes in people who already have it. |
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i. Argued that sometimes result from very bad early childhood experiences.
ii. Believed that most of these instances happen with mothers.
iii. Freud believed ego was suppressed causing schizophrenia. |
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| Communication patterns theory |
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i. Belief that parents (particularly mothers) put their children in double binds by telling them conflicting messages.
ii. Research suggest there are communication oddities but theorize that creates stressful enviorment and triggers biological predisposition. |
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i. How emotional or angry a family gets toward disturbed member.
ii. Schizophrenics with families with more expressed emotion are more likely to relapse. |
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| 1. Neurological abnormalities of schizophrenia create difficulties in attention, inhibition and adherence to rules. |
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1. Believe developed through operant conditioning.
2. Believe disturbed do not learn at an early age how to respond to certain stimuli. |
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| 1. Recegonize demoralizing attitudes toward illness so that they will realize severity and seek help. |
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1. Operant conditiong and modeling
2. Practice social situations
3. Tell family to ignore destructive behavior and reinforce positive behavior. |
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1. Increasing contact between schizophrenics and supportive others.
2. Practice reacting to stressful situations. |
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1. Combine education on schizophrenia and training of family members in reactions to schizophrenia.
2. Given information about biological causes to reduce self blame. |
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