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schizophrenia spectrum disorders Flashcards

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psychosis

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altered cognition and perception, reality base could be medical or substance (15-28y)

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dsmv criteria: highlights

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Two or more of the following for a significant portion of time in 1 month:

  • Delusions
  • Hallucinations
  • Disorganized speech
  • Gross disorganization or catatonia
  • Negative symptoms (diminished emotional expression or avolition)
  • Functional impairment of some kind

Continuous disturbance for at least 6 months

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delusions

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fulse beliefs, held despite a lack of evidence to support them

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hallucinations

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sensory experiences that are not real

ex) visual, auditory

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phases of schizophrenia

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Prodromal
- Onset; mild changes

Acute
- Exacerbation of symptoms

Stabilization

  • Symptoms diminishing
  • Movement toward previous level of functioning

Maintenance or residual
- New baseline is established

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prodormal

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onset; mild changes

  • early onset (warning signs)
  • disroganized thoughts
  • not answering questions correctly
  • auditory hallucinations
  • magical thinking
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acute

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exacerbation of s/s

  • s/s get worse, harm to self/others, greatly need help
  • hearing voices to kill others
  • ask what they are telling you
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stabilization

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Symptoms diminishing
Movement toward the previous level of functioning
- not completely gone, positive s/s go away, negative are residual
- making an effort to not to listen to them
- don’t need acute care but maybe partial hospitalization

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maintenance or risdual

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new baseline is established

  • back at baseline
  • know how to control symptoms
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assessment

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  • During the prodromal phase

General assessment

  • Positive symptoms
  • Negative symptoms
  • Cognitive symptoms
  • Affective symptoms
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positive symptoms

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  • hallucinations
  • delusions
  • disorganized speech
  • bizarre behavior (talking to self)
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negative symptoms

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  • blunt affect
  • no expression
  • alogia- the poverty of thoughts
  • avolition- lack of motivation
  • anhedonia- lack of pleasure
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cognitive symptoms

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  • thought process
  • memory
  • locx4
  • distracted
  • memory impaired
  • trouble problem solving
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affective symptoms

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  • thoughts of suicide
  • hopeless
  • ysphoria: s/s of uneasiness
  • depression and anxiety
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alterations in speech

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  • associative losseness
  • clang association
  • neologisms
  • echolalia
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associative looseness

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Word salad—most extreme form; jumble of words meaningless to a listener

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clang association

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Words chosen based on sound

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neologisms

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Meaning for the patient only

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echolalia

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Pathological repetition of another’s words

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circumstantiality

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trying to have a convo and going in a circle, say a lot of other things than go back to the question

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tangentiality

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talking on a tangent, does not get back to question

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cognitive retardation

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delay in response

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pressured speech

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word vomit, talking so fast cant get a word in

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flight of ideas

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  • one thought to next thought, transfentile

“sunny, grandma coming over, pet died”

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symbolic speech

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  • symbols to describe what they say

- “ needs are pinching me”

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Disorders or Distortions of Thought

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Thought blocking
Thought insertion
Thought deletion
Magical thinking
Paranoia
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thought blocking

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reduction/stopage of thought

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thought insertion

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inserted thoughts not there own

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thought deletion

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deleted their thoughts

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magical thinking

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dont step on a crack

- what there doing will curse someone

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paranoia

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irrational fear but believes it

- dont trust or believe

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alterations in perception

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  • Depersonalization
  • Derealization

Hallucinations

  • Auditory: voices and sounds
  • Visual: spots, animals, people
  • Olfactory: smell something not there
  • Gustatory: taste something not there
  • Tactile: begs crawling on them
  • Command: need interventions, voices telling them to hurt them/someone

Illusions: spiders crawling on wall, black dots

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depersonalization

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unreal
loss of idenity
arm not part of body

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derealization

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environment has changed

“everything tiny”

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alterations in behavior

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  • Catatonia: very expressive or no movement
  • Motor retardation: don’t move: atican challenge
  • Motor agitation
  • Stereotyped behaviors
  • Waxy flexibility: arm stuck in strange way of motion
  • Echopraxia: copy movement
  • Negativism
  • Impaired impulse control
  • Gesturing or posturing
  • Boundary impairment
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cognitive symptoms

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  • Concrete thinking: inability to think obstractly
  • Impaired memory: short term memory
  • Impaired information processing: delayed response, misperception
  • Impaired executive functioning: difficulty with reasoning
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affective symptoms

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  • Assessment for depression is crucial
  • May herald impending relapse
  • Increases substance abuse
  • Increases suicide risk: ask if they have a plan
  • Further impairs functioning
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anosognosia

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  • Inability to realize they are ill
  • Caused by the illness itself
  • May result in resistance to or cessation of treatment
  • Often combined with paranoia so that accepting help is impossible
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nurses self assessment

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Anxiety or fear
Frustration
Expectations

  • give them space
  • look for waning s/s
  • hat I’m injection
  • haldol give w another med to prevent epis s/s
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assessment guidelines

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  • Any medical problems
  • Medical problems that mimic psychosis
  • Drug or alcohol use disorders
  • Mental status examination
  • Include cognitive assessment (e.g., reality testing)
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what to assess for

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Assess for hallucinations
Assess for delusions
Assess for suicide risk
Assess ability to ensure personal safety and health
Assess prescribed meds
Assess symptoms’ impact on functioning
Assess family knowledge
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nursing diagnosis: postive symptoms

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Disturbed sensory perception
Risk for self-directed or other-directed violence
Impaired verbal communication

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nursing diagnosis: negative symptoms

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Social isolation
Chronic low self-esteem
risk for succide

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outcomes and planning phase 1

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phase 1- acute
- Patient safety and medical stabilization

Best strategies to ensure patient safety and provide symptom stabilization

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outcomes and planning phase 2

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  • stabilization
  • Help patient understand illness and treatment
  • Stabilize medications
  • Control or cope with symptoms
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outcomes and planning phase: maintenance

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maintenance
Maintain achievement
Prevent relapse
Achieve independence, satisfactory quality of life

Provide patient and family education
Relapse prevention skills are vital

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implementation

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Acute phase
- Psychiatric, medical, and neurological evaluation
- Psychopharmacological treatment
- Support, psychoeducation, and guidance
- Supervision and limit setting in the milieu
- Monitor fluid intake
- Working with aggression
+ Regularly assess for risk and take safety measures

  • basic eating, urinating, drinking, safety
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interventions

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Stabilization and maintenance phases

  • Medication administration/adherence
  • Relationships with trusted care providers
  • Community-based therapeutic services
  • Teamwork and safety
  • Activities and groups

Counseling and communication techniques

  • Hallucinations
  • Delusions
  • Associative looseness
  • Health teaching and health promotion
  • silence
  • base them back to reality
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psychobiological intervention

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Antipsychotic medications

  • First-generation
  • Second-generation
  • Third-generation

Injectable antipsychotics

  • Short-acting
  • Long-acting
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first gen antipsychotics

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Dopamine antagonists (D2 receptor antagonists)
Target positive symptoms of schizophrenia
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first gen antipsychotics advantage

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Less expensive than second generation

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disadvantange of first gen

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  • Extrapyramidal side effects (EPS)
  • Anticholinergic (ACh) side effects
  • Tardive dyskinesia
  • Weight gain, sexual dysfunction, endocrine disturbances
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second gen

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  • Serotonin (5-HT2A receptor) and dopamine (D2 receptor) antagonists, e.g., clozapine (Clozaril)
  • Treat both positive and negative symptoms
  • Minimal to no EPS or tardive dyskinesia
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2nd gen disadvantage

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tendency to cause significant weight gain; risk of metabolic syndrome

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3rd gen

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  • Really a subset of the SGAs
  • Aripiprazole (Abilify), brexpiprazole (Rexulti), and cariprazine (Vraylar)
  • Dopamine system stabilizers
  • May improve positive and negative symptoms and cognitive function
    +Little risk of EPS or tardive dyskinesia
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Potentially Dangerous Responses to Antipsychotics

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  • ACh toxicity
  • Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS)
  • Agranulocytosis
  • Prolongation of the QT interval
  • Liver impairment
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Advanced Practice Interventions

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Individual and group therapy
Psychoeducation
Medication prescription and monitoring
Basic health assessment
Cognitive remediation
Family therapy
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evaluation

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  • Reevaluate progress regularly and adjust treatment when needed
  • Even after symptoms improve outwardly, inside the patient is still recovering.
  • Set small goals; recovery can take months.
  • Active, ongoing communication and caring is essential.

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