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NURS 1111
Schizophrenic Disorders Chap. 20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Affect | Refers to the outward manifestation of a person's feelings and emotions. Client's may display flat, blunted, inappriopriate, or bizarre affect |
| Associative looseness | Refers to haphazard and illogixal speech and reasoning. The term looseness of association is also used |
| Autism | Refers to to thinking that is not bound to reality but reflects the private perceptual world of the individual. Delusions, hallucinations, and neologisms are example of autisitc thinking |
| Ambivalence | Refers to simultaneously holding two opposing emotions, attitudes, ideas, or wishes toward the same person, situation, or objects. |
| Acute phase: | Periods of florid positive symptoms (hallucinations, delusions) as well as negative symptoms (apathy, withdrawal, lack of activities |
| Manintenance phase | Period when acute symptoms decrease in severity |
| Stablization phase | Period in which symptoms are in remission, although there might be milder persisitent symptoms |
| Positive symptoms | Hallucination, |
| Schizophrenia Characteristics signs and symptoms | Speech abnormalities, Thought distortions, Social interactions |
| Clang associations | Client says, "It's a can, man, sand" |
| Echolalia | Meaningless repetition of words or phrases |
| Loose association and Flight of ideas | Rapid succession of incomplete ideas that aren't connected by logic or rationality |
| Word salad | Illogical word groupings (Example: "She had a star, barn, plant" |
| Neologisms | Bizarre words that have meaning only for the patient |
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