Types of Delusional Disorders
With this type of delusion, the individual believes that someone, usually of a higher status, is in love with him or her
What is erotomanic type?
Delusions, paranoia, magical thinking, religiosity
What are positive symptoms - content of thought?
Inappropriate, bland, flat, apathy
What are negative symptoms - affect?
A concept of healing and transformation enabling a person with mental illness to live a meaningful life in the community while striving to achieve his or her full potential.
What is the Recovery Model?
Weaker dopamine receptor antagonists than the conventional antipsychotics but are more potent antagonists of the serotonin type 2A, cholinergic, histaminic, and adrenergic receptors i.e. aripiprazole, clozapine, olanzapine, risperidone
What are atypical antipsychotics?
With this type of delusion, individuals have irrational ideas regarding their own worth, talent, knowledge, or power
What is grandiose type?
Hallucinations, illusions
What are positive symptoms - perception?
Impaired social interaction, social isolation, lack of insight (anosognosia)
What are negative symptoms - impaired interpersonal functioning and relationship to the external world?
Clearly defined goals, attaching positive, negative, and aversive reinforcements to adaptive and maladaptive behavior; uses simple, concrete instructions and prompts
What is behavior therapy?
Class of drugs used to decrease agitation and psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia and other psychotic symptoms
What are anitpsychotics?
Centers on the idea that the person's sexual partner is unfaithful; the idea is irrational and without cause, but the individual with this type of delusion searches for evidence to justify the belief
What is jealous type?
World salad, circumstantiality, tangentiality, mutism, perseveration
What are positive symptoms - form of thought?
Anhedonia, regression
What are negative symptoms - associated features?
An evidence-based program of case management that takes a team approach in providing comprehensive, community-based psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation, and support to persons with serious and persistent mental illness.
What is Program of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)?
Dopaminergic blockers with various affinity for cholinergic, alpha adrenergic, and histaminic receptors i.e. haloperidol
What are typical anitpsychotics?
Most common type of delusions, individuals believe they are being persecuted or malevolently treated in some way
What is persecutory type?
Echolalia, echopraxia, identification and imitation, depersonalization
What are positive symptoms - sense of self?
Emotional ambivalence, deterioration in appearance
What are negative symptoms - volition?
Long-term therapeutic approach; difficult because of client's impairment in interpersonal functioning
What is individual psychotherapy?
Pseudoparkinsonism, akinesia, akathesia, dystonia
What are extrapyramidal symptoms?
Individuals with these delusions believe they have some type of general medical condition
What is somatic type?
Associative looseness, neologisms, concrete thinking, clang associations
What are positive symptoms - form of thought?
Anergia, waxy flexibility, posturing, pacing and rocking
What are negative symptoms - psychomotor behavior?
The basic premise of this type of treatment is that complex interpersonal skills involve the smooth integration of a combination of simpler behaviors, including non-verbal behaviors; verbal content; and interactive balance. These specific skills can be systematically taught.
What is social skills training?
Antiparkinsonian agent prescribed to counteract extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS)
What is benztropine?