symptoms of schizophrenia Flashcards
(21 cards)
1
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define symptom
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- what characterise the disorder about how the person thinks, feels or behaves
2
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symptoms of schizophrenia can be…
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- positive or negative
- positive symptoms: additions to behaviour - tend to be more treatment than negative symptoms
- negative symptoms: where normal functioning is not present
3
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what are symptoms also called?
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- type I/first-rank symptoms
4
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define delusions
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- eg delusions of control
- patients thinks their actions are being controlled by outside forces
- positive
5
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define thought insertion
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- where patient thinks that the thought in their head are put there by someone else
- positive
6
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define hallucinations
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- where patient hears or sees things that don’t exist
- eg voices commenting of their behaviour
- positive
7
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define thought withdrawal
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- belief that outside forces are taking thoughts from the mind
- positive
8
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define thought broadcasting
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- patient believes their thoughts are being broadcast to others
- positive
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define disorganised thinking
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- individuals can’t organise their thoughts about a situation
- leads to confusion in what to do or say
- find it hard to think in ordered and logical way to make thoughts make sense
- positive
10
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what are negative symptoms also called?
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- type II/second rank symptoms
11
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define poverty of speech
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- where patient uses as few words as possible
- negative
12
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define social withdrawal
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- patient no longer interacts with family and friends
- negative
13
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define flattening affect
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- where patient has a lack of expression in their voice and doesn’t show emotions in their face
- negative
14
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define grandiose delusions
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- the individual believes they have remarkable qualities such as being famous or having special powers
- positive
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define persecutory delusions
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- individual reports believing that others are ’out to get them’ and trying to harm them in some way
- positive
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define referential delusions
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- individual holds belief that certain behaviours or language from others is being directed at them personally
- positive
17
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define disorganised behaviour
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- behaviour that’s self-contradictory/consistent
- (eg childlike silliness/extreme emotional reaction (laughing after a catastrophe))
- positive
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define disorganised speech
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- any interruption that makes communications difficult - sometimes impossible to understand
- positive
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define catatonia
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- various motor disturbances
- characterised by abnormality of movement and behaviour (eg repetitive hair twirling or foot tapping)
- positive
20
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define comorbidity
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- presence of more than one disorder in the same person at once
21
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define avolition
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- lack of motivation to complete usual, self motivated activities eg work
