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AD 230 schizo
Schizophrenia positive and negatve symptoms
Question | Answer |
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Schizophrenia positive symptoms | reflects excess or distortion of normal function. |
Schizophrenia positive symptom categories | Content of thought, form of thought, perception, sense of self |
Schizophrenia positive (content of thought): Delusional | false personal beliefs – continues to have the belief even though it can be proven false. |
Schizophrenia positive (content of thought):Religiosity | excessive demonstration of obsession with religious ideas and behavior |
Schizophrenia positive (content of thought): paranoia | extreme suspiciousness of others |
Schizophrenia positive (content of thought): Magical thinking | The idea that one’s thoughts or behaviors have control over specific situations or people (e.g. step on a crack, break your mothers back). |
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought):Associative looseness | shift of ideas from one unrelated topic to another; The flow of speech shift from on unrelated topic to another – topics are unconnected. |
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought): neologisms | Made-up words that have meaning only to the individual who invents them |
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought): Concrete thinking | Literal interpretations of the environment (e.g. trying to literally interpret “it’s raining cats and dogs”. |
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought): Clang Association | Choice of words is governed by sound (often rhyming) E.g. “it is very cold, I’am cold and bold. The gold has been sold” |
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought): Word salad | A group of words put together randomly, without any logical connection |
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought): Circumstantially | A delay in reaching the point of a communication due to unnecessary and tedious details ; Person needs to be re-directed or kept on track of topic being discussed, with the point or goal usually met. |
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought):Tangentiality | Inability to get to point of communication due to introduction of many new topics;Person never gets to the point or goal of communication. |
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought):Mutism | Inability or refusal to speak |
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought): Perservation | persistent repetition of the same word or idea in response to different questions |
Schizophrenia positive (Perception): Hallucinations | False sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli |
Schizophrenia positive (Perception): illusions | Misperceptions of real external stimuli |
Schizophrenia positive - Sense of self: | the uniqueness and individuality a person feels |
A person with schizophrenia has weak ego boundaries, lacks feeling of uniqueness = | confusion |
Schizophrenia positive (Sense of self) - Echolalia: | repeating words that are heard |
Schizophrenia positive (Sense of self) - Echopraxia: | repeating movements that are observed |
Schizophrenia positive (Sense of self) - Identification and imitation | Taking on the form of behavior one observes in another |
Schizophrenia positive (Sense of self) - Depersonalization | feelings of unreality |
Schizophrenia positive - Perception | the interpretation of stimuli through the senses |
Schizophrenia negative | Loss of normal functions |
Schizophrenia negative categories | Affect, volition, Impaired interpersonal functioning & relationship to the external world, psychomotor behavior, Association features. |
Schizophrenia negative (Affect): | An individual's feelings or emotional tone |
Schizophrenia negative (Affect):Innappropriate affect | Emotional tone is incongruent with the circumstances ;E.g. Client who cries when he hears of his mothers death. |
Schizophrenia negative (Affect):Bland affect | Emotional tone is very weak |
Schizophrenia negative (Affect):Flat affect | Individual appears to be void of emotional tone |
Schizophrenia negative (Affect):Apathy | Indifference to or disinterest in the environment |
Schizophrenia negative (Volition) | Impairment in the ability to initiate goal-directed activity |
Schizophrenia negative (Volition)examples | May take form of inadequate motivation, or ability to chose a logical course of action given the situation. |
Schizophrenia negative (Volition): emotional ambivalence | The coexistence of opposite emotions toward the same object, person, or situation; Inability to make a simple decision (e.g. whether to have coffee or tea) |
Schizophrenia - negative (Impaired interpersonal functioning and relationship to the external world): Autism | The focus inward on a fantasy world, while distorting or excluding the external environment. |
Schizophrenia -negative (Impaired interpersonal functioning and relationship to the external world):Deteriorated appearance | Personal grooming and self-care activities are neglected. |
Schizophrenia - (Psychomotor behavior)-negative: Anergia | a deficiency of energy. May lack energy to carry out ADL’s |
Schizophrenia - (Psychomotor behavior)-negative: Waxy flexibility | passive yielding of all moveable parts of the body to any efforts made at placing them in certain positions o Once placed in position, the arm, leg or head stays in that same position for a long time. |
Schizophrenia - (Psychomotor behavior)-negative: Posturing | Voluntary assumption of inappropriate or bizarre postures |
Schizophrenia - (Psychomotor behavior)-negative: Pacing and rocking | pacing back and forth and rocking of the body |
Schizophrenia - Negative (Associated features): Anhedonia | inability to experience pleasure |
Schizophrenia - Negative (Associated features):regression | Retreat to an earlier level of development |