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Client with Psychotic disorder/suspicious behavior
positive/negative symptoms of schizophrenia/meds/etc
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Nursing
Undergraduate 2
11/09/2012

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Term
What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Definition

Alogia

Affective

Anhedonia

Avolition (apathy)

Attention

Social Withdrawal

Term
Alogia
Definition

restricted thought or speech

reduction in the amount or content of speech

poverty of speech-speaks very little

thought blocking

poverty of content-little info conveyed by client because of vagueness or stereotypical statements

 

EXAMPLE: pt wouldn't respond

Term
Ambivalence
Definition

Inability to make a decision because of conflicting emotions

 

Term
Anhedonia
Definition

inability to experience pleasure from any activity

decreased activity

hypersomnia

Term

Apathy

(avolition)

Definition

lack of motivation/goals

 

EXAMPLE: poor hygiene, lack of drive, neglecting work/school which causes problems

Term
Attention impairment
Definition

inattention

distractibility

Term

Affect

(affective)

Definition

Changes in emotions

plat/blunted affect-expressionless

poor eye contact

inappropriate affect-laughing when told something sad

Term
Social Withdrawal
Definition

asocial

nonresponsive

Term
What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Definition

Hallucinations

Delusions

Disorganization (of speech and thinking)

Term
What are hallucinations and what are the types?
Definition

FALSE SENSORY PERCEPTIONS

 

auditory-covers ears, talks back to noone

visual-signs in the environment just happening to them

tactile

olfactory-smell

gustatory-taste

Term
What are delusions?
Definition
FIXED FALSE BELIEFS
Term
Example of delusion of control
Definition

alien control

that others can control a person's thoughts against their will

Term
Delusion of persecution
Definition
The client has delusions that others are out to get or are  plotting against him/her
Term
Delusions of grandeur
Definition
the individual has excessive feelings of importance and power over others
Term
Ideas of reference
Definition
Irrationally thinking that on is being talked about or laughed at by other people: also called personalization
Term
thought broadcasting
Definition

others can hear his/her thoughts

"everyone knows my thoughts that's why they are mean"

Term
thought insertion
Definition

Delusion

someone putting thoughts in my mind without my will

Term
somatic delusion
Definition

the individual has delusions that are fixed on an irrational belief about his or her body

 

EXAMPLE: emits foul odor from skin, mouth, rectum, vagina

has infestation of insects in or on skin

has internal parasite

has misshapen and ugly body parts

has dysfunctional body parts

Term
paranoid delusions
Definition

client believes others are out to get him/her

 

EXAMPLE: client may be hostile, suspicious and aggressive

Term
What is the third type of positive symptom of schizophrenia?
Definition

Disorganization (of speach and thinking)

FORM OF THOUGHT

Term
What are examples of disorganization?
Definition

concreteness

circumstantial tangential

loose associations

impaired logic

distrubances of speech

incoherence

confusion (jumbled thoughts)

Term

Concreteness

(concrete thinking-difficulty with abstrations)

Definition

literal interpretation of environment

regression

can't describe "it's raining like cats and dogs"

Term
tangentiality
Definition

person never gets to the point of conversation

TANGLED

Term
Associative looseness
Definition

ideas shift from one unrelated subject to another

 

EXAMPLE: "we wanted to take the bus, but the airport took all the traffic. Driving is the ticket when you want to get somewhere. No one needs a ticket to heaven."

Term
impaired logic
Definition
logical thinking pattern
Term
Confusion
Definition
Jumbled thoughts
Term
disturbances of speech
Definition

Echolalia: repeating words of another person

clang associations: rhyming words that make no sense

neologisms: invented new words 

word salad: combination of words in a sentence that have no connection and make no sense

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