Symptoms
Special messages from television
What are Delusions of reference?
The focus on safety and avoidance of questioning.
What are delusions?
The unnecessary details before circling back to the main topic.
What is circumstantiality?
The loss of motivation
What is avolition?
These medications have been used since the 1950s. As a class, they are also effective in the treatment of acute agitation, bipolar mania, and other psychiatric conditions.
What are first generation antipsychotics?
Ideas shifting from one unrelated subject to another
Loose associations
The use of competing auditory stimuli
What are Hallucinations?
The endless wandering off topic
What is tangentiality?
The decreased desire for, or comfort during, social interaction.
What is asociality?
These drugs are the least expensive but have a higher risk of EPS
What are FGAs?
Beliefs that ones thoughts have power
What is magical thinking
The use of role play to practice verbal and nonverbal skills for successful social interaction.
What is social skills training?
The nearly continuous flow of accelerated speech, abruptly changing from topic to topic
What are flight of ideas?
The reduction in speech.
What is alogia, sometimes called poverty of speech?
Stereotypical involuntary movements including sucking/smacking of lips, and jaw.
What is Tardive dyskinesia?
Terrorist groups are out to get me
What is a paranoid delusion
Recent research funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health to develop and test a coordinated specialty care intervention for patients with early psychosis.
What is the RAISS approach?
The use of symbols in communication.
What is symbolic speech?
A decreased interest in, or attention to, activities or beliefs that would otherwise be interesting or important.
What is apathy?
This treats both positive and negative symptoms.
What are second generation antipsychotics?
Patient who writes lyrics for Celine Dion
What is a grandiose delusion?
Placing difficulty in understanding in yourself not the patient
What is Associate Looseness?
Intense speech difficult to interrupt.
What is pressured speech?
The reduced ability or inability to experience pleasure in everyday life.
What is anhedonia?
A potential fatal disorder in which the client's white blood cell count drops to extremely low levels, placing the client at great risk for infections.
What is agranulocytosis?