The client has psychotic thinking or behavior present at least 6 months areas of function include school/work, self care, and relationships schizophrenia
The client has impairments of personality functioning. However, impairment is not as severe as someone with schizophrenia schizotypal personalit...
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The client has psychotic thinking or behavior present at least 6 months areas of function
include school/work, self care, and relationships ✅schizophrenia
The client has impairments of personality functioning. However, impairment is not as
severe as someone with schizophrenia ✅schizotypal personality disorder
The client experiences delusional thinking for at least 1 month. Self or interpersonal
functioning is not markedly impaired ✅delusional disorder
The client has psychotic manifestations similar to those of schizophrenia but the
duration is from 1 to 6 months and social/occupational dysfunction may or may not be
present ✅schizophreniform disorder
The client has psychotic manifestations that last between 1 day to 1 month in duration
✅brief psychotic disorder
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The clients disorder meets both the criteria for schizophrenia and depressive bipolar
disorder ✅schizoaffective disorder
The client experiences psychosis within 1 month of substance intoxication or
withdrawal. May be caused by medications intended for therapeutic use ✅substance
induced psychotic disorder
Positive symptoms ✅the manifestation of things that are not normally present.
-hallucinations, delusions, alterations in speech, bizarre behavior
Negative symptoms ✅the absence of things that are normally present. More difficult to
detect
- affect (usually blunted), logia (poverty of thought or speech), anergia, anhedonia (lack
of pleasure), abolition (lack of motivation)
Cognitive symptoms ✅problems with thinking making it difficult for the client to live
independently
-disordered thinking, inability to decide, memory problems, difficulty concentrating
, Define delusions ✅are false fixed beliefs that cannot be corrected by reasoning and
are usually bizarre includes the following
What kind of delusion
Misconstrues trivial events and attaches personal significance to them, such as
believing that others are talking about him ✅ideas of reference
Feels singled out for harm by others (being hunted by FBI) ✅persecution
Believes that she is all powerful and important like a god ✅granduer
Believes that his body is changing in an unusual way such as growing a third arm
✅somatic delusions
May feel that her spouse is sexually involved with another woman ✅jealousy
Believes that a fore outside his body is controlling him ✅being controlled
Believes that her thoughts are heard by people ✅thought broadcasting
Believes that her thoughts have been removed from her mind by an outside agency
✅thought withdrawal
Is obsessed with religious beliefs ✅religiosity
The client may say sentence after sentence, but each sentence may relate to another
topic, and the listener is unable to follow the clients thoughts ✅flight of ideas
Made-up words that have meaning only to the client ✅Neologisms
The client repeats the words spoken to him ✅Echolalia
Meaningless rhyming of words ✅clang association
Words jumbled up together ✅word salad
Atypical antipsychotics ✅are current meds of choice for psychotic disorders and they
generally treat + and - s/s
Examples of atypical antipsychotics ✅Risperidone, Olonzapine, Queitapine,
Ziprasidone, Aropoprazole, Clozapine
A/e that should be reported with atypical antipsychotics ✅agitation, dizziness,
sedation, and sleep disruption
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