Diagnostic Criteria
Delusion must be present for at least one month, but does not meet "criteria A" of schizophrenia.
What is delusional disorder?
These diagnoses, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, and substance-induced psychotic disorder all have this potential symptom in common.
What are delusions?
The defining differentiation between substance-induced psychotic disorders and other schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
What is the symptoms of drugs or medications present soon after taking the substance, OR, the substance in question is able to reproduce the symptomology?
This treatment is thought to be the most effective in treating medication/substance-induced psychotic disorder.
What is removal of the agent?
This work can be done with a patient living with schizoaffective disorder as a way to help manage their day to day lives.
What is skills therapy?
At least three of which five characteristics are required to meet Criteria A of schizophrenia?
What are: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, and negative symptoms?
This form of therapy can be beneficial for individuals with all four of our diagnoses this week.
What is CBT?
This is the marked difference between schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.
What is the mood component?
Some say that schizoaffective disorder is a more advanced state of schizophrenia.
This is the treatment of choice for delusional disorder.
What are second-generation antipsychotics: risperidone, clozapine, quetiapine, ziprasidone, and olanzapine?
Also, CBT, and Family-focused Therapy.
A diagnosis of this can be ruled in based on lab values.
What is substance-induced psychotic disorder?
This diagnosis has the trickiest diagnostic criteria.
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Of all the medication/substance-induced psychotic disorder initiators this is the worst.
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These are the different subtypes specific to delusional disorder.
What are erotomanic, grandiose, jealous, persecutory, somatic, mixed, and unspecified.
This therapeutic intervention barbarically highlighted in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is now a widely accepted form of treatment for Schizophrenia.
What is ECT?
These are two more commonly seen negative symptoms in those living with schizophrenia.
What are avolition and diminished emotional expression.
The minimum period of time with noted delusions and hallucinations: schizophrenia versus schizoaffective disorder.
One month versus two weeks.
These risk factors are often associated with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.
What are: prolonged stress, genetic/hereditary components, viral infections, gestational complications, and trauma.
This diagnostic criterion does not apply for schizoaffective disorder as it does schizophrenia.
What is global dysfunction?
While it is likely to occur in those with schizoaffective disorder the substantial variability seen in individual cases is enough to disclude it as official criteria.
These medications are possible triggers for medication-induced psychosis.
What are methylphenidate, opioids, corticosteroids, fluoroquinolones, anticholinergics, and benzodiazepines?
Prevalence is roughly 0.2% and the most common subtype is prosecutory.
What is delusional disorder?