Signs and symptoms
______poverty of speech or speech content
Negative Alogia
how people think, talk, and communicate.
positive disorganized thinking
belief that someone is trying to hurt them
persecutory
These are the most common type in schizophrenia. The person might hear voices, sounds, or noises that others don’t hear.
Auditory hallucinations:
“I hear that you're hearing voices right now. I understand that can be really upsetting, but I don’t hear the voices you’re describing.”
Nursing Interventions for Hallucinations:
fixed, false beliefs fixed, false beliefs for which a person lacks insight into, even in the face of evidence that proves contrary to their validity
Postive Delusions
___________is the inability to experience pleasure
Negative Anhedonia
inflated view of oneself
Grandiose
These involve smelling or tasting things that aren't present
Olfactory and gustatory hallucinations:
involves symptoms of both schizophrenia (like delusions or hallucinations) and a mood disorder (like depression or bipolar disorder).
Schizoaffective Disorder
_________ lack of motivation for goal-directed behavior
Negative Avolition
____aren’t actually there, like hearing voices, seeing things, or feeling sensations that others don’t.
Positive Hallucinations
patient sees and hears in the external environment are directed at them
Referential
A person might see a person in their room, even though there's no one there.
Visual hallucinations:
“that must be frightening.”
nursing intervention for delusion
The person might perform the same action over and over without a clear reason,
positive Disorganized/Abnormal motor behavior
_______ reduction in emotional expression, reduced display of emotional expression
Negative Affective flattening.
when one believes others are in love with them
Erotomanic
alse beliefs regarding one’s own or other peoples body function.
Somatic
severe mental disorder characterized by distorted thinking, perception, emotions, language, and behavior.
Schizophrenia
_______general lack of interest
Apathy
complete lack of reactivity to the environment,
positive complete lack of reactivity to the environment,
when one believes major catastrophes will occur.
Nihilistic
These involve the sensation of touch, where the person feels something on their body, but nothing is physically touching them.
Tactile hallucinations:
range of disorders that have symptoms similar to schizophrenia but vary in severity, duration, or specific symptomatology.
Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders