Reality checkers
What is a negative symptom of Schizophrenia?
restricted affect (limited emotional expression)
What are the Cluster A personality disorders?
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
what is avolition a symptom of?
schizophrenia
Act of deliberately cutting, burning, puncturing, or otherwise significantly injuring one’s skin with no intent to die.
nonsuicidal injury
how many other disorders are in the schizophrenic family?
5
Which personality disorders are in Cluster B?
Antisocial,Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic
What is the difference between positive and negative symptoms of Schizophrenia?
Positive sx involve the prscence of abnormal behaviors, such as delusions/hallucinations
Negative sx involve the absence or reduction of normal behaviors
Which personality disorder cannot be diagnosed for individuals under the age of 18?
Antisocial perosnality disorder
False, persistent belief that one is being pursued by others
persecutory delusion
Suicides or attempted suicides are nonrandomly bunched together in space or time
Suicide cluster
what is a biological treatment of schizophrenia?
antipsychotic drugs and atypical antipsychotic drugs
Behaviors engaged in with some intent to kill oneself.
Suicide Attempts
What is the strongest predictor of Schizophrenia?
Genetics
Cluster B personality disorders are described as
Dramatic-Emotional
involves perception something is happening outside the body
tactile hallucination
what are personality and cogntiive factors in suicide?
impulsivity and hopelessness
schizophrenia
True or False: Females are more likely to attempt suicide
True
when a person holds a false belief with a strong conviction, even presented with evidence against it
which disorder is characterized by instablity?
borderline personality disorder
When speech is so disorganized that it is incoherant --give an example!
Word salad
restricting the access to this lowers the chance of suicide
firearms
What is Assertive community treatment? what population is this geared for?
comprehensive services to meet patients needs 24 hours a day
Anxious about interpersonal interactions, but anxiety stems from a deep need to be cared for by others, rather than from a concern that they will be criticized.
Dependent Personality Disorder
What are the postive symptoms of Schizophrenia?
Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganied thought and speech, Disorganized or Catatonic Behavior
negative emotionality v emotional stability; extraversion v intraversion; openness v closedness; agreeableness v antagonism; conscientiousness v undependability
inability to persist at goal directed acitvities.
avolition
true or false: talking about suicide with someone will make them more likely to attempt it
false
what symptom is necessary for schizophrenia diagnosis?
psychosis
People with this disorder are usually described as "Type A"
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disoder
This is the unsupported belief that one has special powers, wealth, mission, or identity that creates inflated worth
grandiose delusion
This type of therapy is the most effective for individuals with borderline personality disorder
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Excessive levels of this neurotransmitter contribute to schizophrenia accroding to biologial theories
dopamine
Survivors who become suicidal may be modeling the behavior of the friend or admired celebrity who committed suicide --what is this called?
suicide contagion
Symptoms of schizophrenia present for less than 6 months in which disorder?
Schizophreniform
The Anxious-Fearful Cluster includes which disorders?
Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-Compulsive