Symptoms
Hallucinations
A treatment setting a care provider gives praise for an appropriate response to short and simple instruction allowing a patient to modify previously deviant/maladaptive responses.
Behavioral therapy
The “Queen of Pinups” in the 1950s.
Betty Page
Schizophrenia affects approximately ___ million people worldwide.
Schizophrenia affects approximately 24 million people or 1 in 300 people (0.32%) worldwide.
Symptoms are antipsychotic medications treating (generally)
What are Positive Symptoms
Two symptoms that are common in both an exacerbation of schizophrenia, a manic episode of bipolar and are often associated with psychosis.
paranoia and exaggerated or distorted perceptions, beliefs and behaviors.
Good for outpatient if combined with drug therapy for long-term treatment. It allows for social interaction, a sense of identity, and improved reality testing.
Group therapy
“Saturday Night Live” actor known for his impressions of politicians like John McCain, Donald Trump, and Bill Clinton.
Darrell Hammond
When does onset typically occur?
Onset is most often during late adolescence and the twenties
Symptoms of Tardive Diskinesia and how is it treated
What are involutary and abnormal movements of the jaw, lips and tongue. There is no treatment, the best way to treat it is to prevent it
An inability to to communicate your thoughts or experiences clearly to another person.
Disorganized thinking (speech)
Normally done through role-playing, the HCP role models simple social ques (voice pitch, facial expression, amount of time between responses, etc) which the client then uses in a role-playing.
Social skills training
In 1994, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Russell Crowe played Nash in the Oscar-winning movie A Beautiful Mind.
John Nash Jr.
Men or women have earlier onset?
Onset tends to happen earlier among men than among women.
Class of Antispychotic medication that is considered first line therapy
What are Second Generation Antipsychotics.
False beliefs that are irrational and fixed, regardless or evidence or reason. Categorized by persecutory, referential, grandiose or somatic.
Delusions
New care model where after the first and earliest signs of psychotic symptoms comprehensive care is started.
RAISE (Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode)
The youngest child of Albert Einstein was studying medicine when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 20.
Eduard Einstein
How what % of people experience complete remission of symptoms?
At least one-third of people with schizophrenia experience complete remission of symptoms.
Knowing that dopamine is associated with the symptoms of schizophrenia, which medications put the patient a higher risk for neurological side effects due to the lack of dopamine
What are Typical Antipsychotics or 1st generation
What are negative symptoms? Name 3.
Lack of emotional expression
Avolition (Lack of motivation to do ADLs)
Alogia (lack of verbal communication)
Asociality (a decrease in social activity and personal relationships)
Diminished ability for abstract thinking
Teaches a person to modify beliefs or behaviors that may be leading to negative emotions.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
This writer, artist, and 1920s fashion symbol was married to The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Zelda Fitzgerald
What % of people with schizophrenia receive specialist mental health care?
Only 31.3% of people with psychosis receive specialist mental health care.
The Mechanism of Action for aripiprazole
What is a Dopamine System Stabilizaer. It is a Agonist and Antagonist Simultaneously (Decreasing adverse effects, YAY)