Schizophrenia
This group of symptoms includes hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking or speech.
What are positive symptoms?
Unlike ordinary happiness or increased energy, this mood episode involves a distinct period of abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood with increased energy or activity.
What is mania?
This class of medications is commonly used to treat hallucinations and delusions
What are antipsychotics?
This class of drugs includes heroin, fentanyl, and oxycodone.
What are opioids?
Cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and CBT for psychosis are all examples of this type of therapy.
What is psychotherapy?
A person with schizophrenia may hear a voice commenting on their actions even though no one is actually speaking. This is an example of what symptom?
What is an auditory hallucination?
This type of bipolar episode is characterized by a persistently depressed mood and/or loss of interest or pleasure.
What is a depressive episode?
This class of antidepressants includes medications such as sertraline, fluoxetine, and escitalopram.
What are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)?
This is the term for the physical and psychological symptoms that occur when a person stops or significantly reduces their substance use.
What is withdrawal?
This approach involves helping clients identify their own reasons for making a change rather than telling them what they should do.
What is motivational interviewing?
Flat or reduced emotional expression, decreased motivation, and reduced ability to experience pleasure are examples of this category of symptoms.
What are negative symptoms?
This is the term for a less severe form of mania that does not cause the marked functional impairment or hospitalization typically associated with mania.
What is hypomania?
Lithium, valproate/divalproex, and lamotrigine are all examples of this type of medication used to treat bipolar disorder.
What are mood stabilizers?
This substance withdrawal can cause seizures and delirium tremens and can be medically life-threatening.
What is alcohol?
This term describes continuing to attempt to engage a client despite repeated refusals or missed contacts.
What is assertive engagement?
A client believes their ACT team is secretly working with the government to monitor them. This type of psychotic symptom is characterized by a fixed false belief.
What is a delusion?
This type of bipolar disorder requires at least one manic episode during the person's lifetime.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
This potentially irreversible movement disorder can develop after prolonged exposure to antipsychotic medications.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
This approach focuses on reducing the negative consequences associated with substance use rather than requiring abstinence.
What is harm reduction?
This term describes a client's right to make decisions about their own treatment, including decisions clinicians may disagree with.
What is autonomy?
A client continues to experience significant psychotic symptoms after two adequate antipsychotic trials with confirmed adherence. This condition is known as this.
What is treatment-resistant schizophrenia?
This type of bipolar disorder involves episodes of hypomania and major depression but no history of a full manic episode.
This side effect of antipsychotics involves an inability to sit still and an intense feeling of inner restlessness.
What is akathisia?
This type of medication or substance can increase the risk of fatal respiratory depression when combined with opioids.
What are benzodiazepines?
This rehabilitation approach helps people with serious mental illness develop skills needed to function more independently in the community.
What is psychosocial rehabilitation?