NR 547 WEEK 3 2024 QUIZ QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED) 100%
CORRECT |A GRADE
psychosis Correct Answer disruptions in thoughts and perceptions
leading to a disconnection from reality
-symptoms may include abnormal behaviors and sensations, including
catatonic behavior
-may be acute or chron...
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NR 547 WEEK 3 2024 QUIZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED) 100% CORRECT |A GRADE psychosis Correct Answer disruptions in thoughts and perceptions leading to a disconnection from reality -symptoms may include abnormal behaviors and sensations, including catatonic behavior -may be acute or chronic -Although psychosis is categorized as a psychiatric disorder, it commonly occurs as a secondary condition due to underlying endocrine, vascular, immunologic, or metabolic problems -Drugs, other substances, or other psychia tric conditions such as depression or mania may also cause symptoms Psychosis: Clinical Presentation Correct Answer divided into several clinical domains -positive • occur when clients experience things in addition to reality • hearing voices or seeing things that are not there -negative • involve a loss of something • loss of ability to experience pleasure or loss of motivation -cognitive • disorganization in thoughts, memories, focus, or attention -affective • the client's feelings and emotio ns -motor • may include abnormalities in gait, balance, and coordination, irregular muscle contractions, or tremors Psychosis: Positive Symptoms Correct Answer Hallucinations Delusions Thought disorder Hostility Excitability Psychosis: Motor Symptoms Correct Answer Motor delay Dyscoordination EPS -Parkinsonism -Dyskinesia Psychosis: Affective Symptoms Correct Answer Depression Anxiety Suicidality Psychosis: Cognition symptoms Correct Answer Attention Working memory Verbal memory Visual memory Executive functioning Processing speed Social conditioning Psychosis: Negative Symptoms Correct Answer Affective flattening Alogia Anhedonia Amotivation Asociality Hallucinations: Correct Answer perceptual experiences in the absence of external stimuli -Auditory • may include command hallucinations -Visual -Tactile: feeling sensations in the body in the absence of stimuli -Olfactory: smelling things that are not there -Gustatory: tasting things that are not there Delusions: Correct Answer fixed false, irrational beliefs -persecution: delusions r/t being threatened, victimized, or spied on -reference: delusions r/t receiving personal messages from tv, radio, or actions of others -somatic: delusions r/t the body, including illness or the presence of foreign objects • may believe there are objects in their body (may think they are infested with insects.) -grandeur: delusions r/t beliefs of special abilities or powers -control: delusion s that actions & thoughts are controlled by others Symptoms of Psychosis: Thought Disorder Correct Answer impairment in the process of thinking and difficulty organizing thoughts in a logical pattern. -incoherent speech -loose associations -meaning less words -perseveration Symptoms of Psychosis: Disorganized Behavior Correct Answer disordered or impaired behavior or communication -childlike silliness -unpredictable agitation -inappropriate clothing for the weather -poor hygiene schizophrenia is a diagnosis commonly associated with __________ Correct Answer psychosis psychosis neurobiological factors: genetics Correct Answer -Many genes play a role in the likelihood that an individual will develop schizophrenia as do epigenetic factors • Heritability for schizophrenia may be as high as 79% • links gene -environment interaction to the diagnosis of schizophrenia psychosis ne urobiological factors: Environmental Triggers Correct Answer Regular Cannabis Use Exposure to Early Life Trauma -Sexual Abuse -Emotional Abuse -Emotional Neglect -Bullying psychosis neurobiological factors: Neuroanatomy Several areas of the brain are associated with the symptoms of schizophrenia. When brain circuitry in the prefrontal cortex malfunctions, patients may experience symptoms.
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