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NR 547 WEEK 3 2024 QUIZ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED) 100% CORRECT |A GRADE
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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.The benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
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