Symptoms
These are sensory experiences that are not corresponding to reality.
What are hallucinations?
This is therapeutic quality/mode is crucial for those experieince psychotic symptoms.
What is empathy?
This increases hallucinations, while its opposite can help decrease them.
Isolation/lack of Social Participation
A combination of individual and group therapy with education for families as well as medication management, supported employment/education, and case management.
What is Coordinated Speciality Care for Clients with Psychosis or Psychotic Disorders.
Overall goal.
What is increased and successful and satisfactory participation and performance in occupations?
This involves persecutory and gradiose ideas, and individuals may be suspicious and believe others are harassing them.
What is paranoia?
You need to do this with patients with delusions/hallucinations while talking with them.
What is acknowledge the reality of hallucinations without dismissing them but not to reinforce them.
The environment that is crucial for paranoid individuals.
Stable and consistent.
Positive Psychotic Behavior is seen as the person operating from a core set of beliefs that cuase them to see the world as rejecting or dangerous and themselves as broken and defeated; treatment is used to contradict these thoughts and beliefs.
What is CBTp?
The occupation and outcome that helps address the sedentary behavior and lack of physical and social activity common with those with psychotic symptoms.
What is health management.
These are often arising from an information-processing bias and include thought withdrawal, gradeur, and somatic types.
What are delusions?
This should be avoided in communication.
What are confrontations or criticisms?
Two ways hallucinations increase or are more likely to occur.
What is stress and overly stimulating environments.
Engagement and activation of the adaptive mode through activities will neutralize or inhibit dysfunctional beliefs that cause negative symptoms.
What is CT-R Model.
Increased occupational participation reduces this from psychotic symptoms.
What is distress?
Clients find these experiences troubling, and the experiences lead them to elaborate beliefs and disruptive patterns.
What are hallucinations?
A strategy (besides mantras, redirection to what is reality-base, and perspective taking) that includes identifying warning signs, then coping mechanisms, and plans for a crisis.
What is crisis intervention?
Can be used cautiously during activities.
Sensory stimulation.
A developmental approach for neurocog and social cognition deficits aimed at helping the client achieve improvements with performance-based skills.
What is CET aka Cognitive Enhancement Therapy
The 3 general categories of beliefs that people attribute to their psychotic symptoms which must be challenged by successful occupational engagement.
What is control, credibility, and power.
These are often thought to reflect underlying needs, occupational identity, or attachment issues.
What are delusions?
Group therapy considerations.
What is avoiding competition, special roles, and understanding the need for control?
What are occupation-based activities.
They need to be better educated in order to be better advocates and find resources.
What is family?
Occupations most impacted by the symptom. Be specific within the occupations.
Money, food, housing, employment, friendship, medical care