Symptoms
Believing something strongly despite evidence otherwise is called this. Provide an example.
What is a delusion?
schizophrenia symptoms arise from imbalances in this neurotransmitter
dopamine
Provide an example of a long-lasting injectable for Schizophrenia.
What is Invega?
Name THREE OT group at CONREP
What is cooking, smoking cessation, and socialization.
Most common mental health condition in the U.S.
Anxiety Disorders
This symptom can make it hard to organize thoughts or speech.
What is disorganized thinking?
What is the Temporal Lobe
first antipsychotic medication ever developed (in 1950)
Thorazine
Which days are you supposed to call the tox line?
Every day
this month is mental health awareness month
may
when someone interprets neutral or unrelated events as having a special personal meaning directed at them
Ideas of reference
This regulates emotions and social behavior, often associated with anxiety and stress response
What is the amygdala?
This second-generation antipsychotic is commonly known by the brand name Zyprexa.
What is olanzapine?
Name the levels of care in CONREP in order from most structured to least structured.
What is Intensive, Intermediate, Supportive, and Transitional.
What percent of people in the world have Schizophrenia?
1%
The belief that thoughts are being put into one’s mind by the government or law enforcement
What is thought insertion?
Area of the brain that is responsible for memory formation and emotional regulation
What is the hippocampus?
This medication is one of the oldest and most well-known mood stabilizers for bipolar disorder.
Lithium
How many individual therapy sessions do you attend per month in the Supportive group at CONREP?
What is two?
This social skill involves recognizing physical, emotional, or conversational limits in relationships.
What are boundaries?
reduced ability to experience pleasure; a lack of interest in activities that were once enjoyable, leading to low mood and lack of motivation
What is Anhedonia?
Many mood stabilizers and antipsychotics affect this part of the brain responsible for judgment, planning, and decision-making.
Pre-frontal cortex
Name a mood stabilizer
Valproic Acid (Depakote)
Lamotrigine (Lamictal)
Lithium, risperidone, Tegretol
What is the office phone number?
(619)544-1435
Provide an example of a cognitive distortion.
What is all or nothing thinking, overgeneralization, mental filtering, jumping to conclusions, catastrophizing, labeling....