alterations in behavior
Includes pacing and rocking
Extreme Agitation
Made up words that have meaning only to the client
Neologisms
Treats negative and positive symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Risperidone
Rapid relief of anxiety
Benzodiazepines
Extreme fear of certain spaces where the client feels vulnerable and unsafe
Agoraphobia
Doing the opposite of what is required
Negativism
The client repeats words spoken to them
Echolalia
Treats acute and chronic psychotic disorders
Haloperidol
Manages anxiety as a long term treatment
Atypical Anxiolytic (Buspirone)
Fear or anxiety when a patient is separated from a person they are emotionally attached to
1.Separation anxiety disorder
Reduced ability to resist impulses
Impaired impulse control
Meaningless rhyming of words, often forceful
Clang Association
side effect of Chlorpromazine
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
First line treatment for panic disorders, and trauma stressor related disorders
SSRI's (sertraline, citalopram, paroxetine)
Client experiences recurrent panic attacks
Panic disorder
Impaired ability to see where ones body ends and another begins
Boundary Impairment
Words jumbled together with little meaning or significance to the listener
Word Salad
side effect of Clozapine
Metabolic Syndrome-New onset DM, or loss of glucose control in diabetics, weight gain
Confusion, agitation, poor concentration, Disorientation, hallucinations and delirium, Seizures, Tachycardia, Labile BP, Diaphoresis, n/v
Coma which can lead to death
Serotonin Syndrome
Uncontrollable or excessive worry for at least 6 months
Generalized anxiety disorder
Maintaining a specific position for an expanded period of time
Waxy Flexibility
Including multiple and unneeded details during a conversation.
Circumstantiality
how should 2nd and 3rd generation antipsychotics be prescribed?
Start low and go slow
withdrawal signs of benzos
Anxiety, insomnia, tremors, seizures, delirium
Irrational fear of certain object or situation.
Specific phobias