Often interferes with a person's ability to think clearly, to distinguish reality from fantasy, to manage emotions, make decisions, and relate to others
What is schizophrenia?
100
Psychopharmacology and psychosocial.
What are types of treatments?
100
Biopic of the famed mathematician John Nash and his lifelong struggles with his mental health.
What is A Beautiful Mind?
200
False sensory perceptions or perceptual experiences that do not really exist.
What are hallucinations?
200
Side effects to drugs, cost of meds, disorganized thinking, suspicious thinking, patient may feel the meds are no longer working, or the needs of the patient may change over time
What are barriers?
200
Those who experience acute symptoms, severe delusions or hallucinations, serious suicidal thoughts, and inability to care for oneself or severe drug/alcohol problems are treated here.
What is hospitalization?
200
Natalie Portman portrays a psychotic ballerina that experiences both hallucinations and delusions.
What is Black Swan?
300
A fixed, false belief not based in reality.
What are delusions?
300
EPS, Psuedoparkinsonism, Akathisia, Tardive dyskinesia, NMS, Agranukocytosis, and weight gain
What are side effects?
300
A type of treatment that offers peer-to-peer support.
What is pyschosocial treatment?
400
Also known as "psychotic symptoms".
What are positive symptoms?
400
Provide safety and therapeutic relationship.
Client and family teaching.
Establishing community support systems and care
What are nursing interventions?
400
help relieve the positive symptoms of schizophrenia by correcting the chemical imbalance.
What are antipsychotics?
500
Emotional flatness, lack of expression, character loss, speech is brief and devoid of content.
What are negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
500
Neologisms, verbigeration, echolalia, word salad.
What is unusual speech?
500
One example of an intensive team effort in local communities to help people stay out of the hospital and live independently.
What is Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT)?