Positive Sx
Holding seemingly contradictory beliefs or feelings about the same person, event, or situation.
What is ambivalence?
Tendency to speak little to convey little substance of meaning (poverty of content)
What is alogia?
This is the self-soothing skin picking/excoriation.
What is dermatillomania?
Fragmented or poorly related thoughts and ideas.
What is associative looseness?
Feeling no joy or pleasure from life or any activities or relationships.
What is anhedonia?
This is the self-soothing behavior of nail biting.
What is onychophagia?
These are fixed false beliefs that have no basis in reality.
What are delusions?
Restricted range of emotional feeling, tone or mood.
What is a blunted affect?
This is the compulsive behavior of stealing.
What is kleptomania?
Imitation of the movements, gestures, and words of another person whom the client is observing. (There are 2 separate answers)
What are echopraxia and echolalia?
Absence of will, ambition, or drive to take action or accomplish tasks.
What is avolition or lack of volition?
This is the class of medications used for treatment-resistant OCD.
What are second-generation antipsychotics: risperidone (Risperdal), aripiprazole (Abilify)?
Persistent adherence to a single idea or topic; verbal repetition of a sentence, word or phrase; resisting attempts to change the topic.
What is Perseveration?
Psychologically induced immobility occasionally marked by periods of agitation, excitement; the client seems motionless, as if in a trance.
What is catatonia?
What is oniomania (compulsive buying)?
Continuous flow of verbalization in which the person jumps rapidly from one topic to another.
What is Flight of ideas?
Words invented by the client. For example: "I'm afraid of grittiz. If there are any grittiz here, I will have to leave. Are you a grittiz?
What are neologisms?
These are the drugs of choice for the treatment of OCD. Bonus: This is the therapy of choice for OCD.
What are SSRIs (fluvoxamine- Luvox, sertraline- Zoloft)? Bonus: What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)?