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AD 230 schizo

Schizophrenia positive and negatve symptoms

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Schizophrenia positive symptoms reflects excess or distortion of normal function.
Schizophrenia positive symptom categories Content of thought, form of thought, perception, sense of self
Schizophrenia positive (content of thought): Delusional false personal beliefs – continues to have the belief even though it can be proven false.
Schizophrenia positive (content of thought):Religiosity excessive demonstration of obsession with religious ideas and behavior
Schizophrenia positive (content of thought): paranoia extreme suspiciousness of others
Schizophrenia positive (content of thought): Magical thinking The idea that one’s thoughts or behaviors have control over specific situations or people (e.g. step on a crack, break your mothers back).
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought):Associative looseness shift of ideas from one unrelated topic to another; The flow of speech shift from on unrelated topic to another – topics are unconnected.
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought): neologisms Made-up words that have meaning only to the individual who invents them
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought): Concrete thinking Literal interpretations of the environment (e.g. trying to literally interpret “it’s raining cats and dogs”.
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought): Clang Association Choice of words is governed by sound (often rhyming) E.g. “it is very cold, I’am cold and bold. The gold has been sold”
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought): Word salad A group of words put together randomly, without any logical connection
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought): Circumstantially A delay in reaching the point of a communication due to unnecessary and tedious details ; Person needs to be re-directed or kept on track of topic being discussed, with the point or goal usually met.
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought):Tangentiality Inability to get to point of communication due to introduction of many new topics;Person never gets to the point or goal of communication.
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought):Mutism Inability or refusal to speak
Schizophrenia positive (Form of Thought): Perservation persistent repetition of the same word or idea in response to different questions
Schizophrenia positive (Perception): Hallucinations False sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli
Schizophrenia positive (Perception): illusions Misperceptions of real external stimuli
Schizophrenia positive - Sense of self: the uniqueness and individuality a person feels
A person with schizophrenia has weak ego boundaries, lacks feeling of uniqueness = confusion
Schizophrenia positive (Sense of self) - Echolalia: repeating words that are heard
Schizophrenia positive (Sense of self) - Echopraxia: repeating movements that are observed
Schizophrenia positive (Sense of self) - Identification and imitation Taking on the form of behavior one observes in another
Schizophrenia positive (Sense of self) - Depersonalization feelings of unreality
Schizophrenia positive - Perception the interpretation of stimuli through the senses
Schizophrenia negative Loss of normal functions
Schizophrenia negative categories Affect, volition, Impaired interpersonal functioning & relationship to the external world, psychomotor behavior, Association features.
Schizophrenia negative (Affect): An individual's feelings or emotional tone
Schizophrenia negative (Affect):Innappropriate affect Emotional tone is incongruent with the circumstances ;E.g. Client who cries when he hears of his mothers death.
Schizophrenia negative (Affect):Bland affect Emotional tone is very weak
Schizophrenia negative (Affect):Flat affect Individual appears to be void of emotional tone
Schizophrenia negative (Affect):Apathy Indifference to or disinterest in the environment
Schizophrenia negative (Volition) Impairment in the ability to initiate goal-directed activity
Schizophrenia negative (Volition)examples May take form of inadequate motivation, or ability to chose a logical course of action given the situation.
Schizophrenia negative (Volition): emotional ambivalence The coexistence of opposite emotions toward the same object, person, or situation; Inability to make a simple decision (e.g. whether to have coffee or tea)
Schizophrenia - negative (Impaired interpersonal functioning and relationship to the external world): Autism The focus inward on a fantasy world, while distorting or excluding the external environment.
Schizophrenia -negative (Impaired interpersonal functioning and relationship to the external world):Deteriorated appearance Personal grooming and self-care activities are neglected.
Schizophrenia - (Psychomotor behavior)-negative: Anergia a deficiency of energy. May lack energy to carry out ADL’s
Schizophrenia - (Psychomotor behavior)-negative: Waxy flexibility passive yielding of all moveable parts of the body to any efforts made at placing them in certain positions o Once placed in position, the arm, leg or head stays in that same position for a long time.
Schizophrenia - (Psychomotor behavior)-negative: Posturing Voluntary assumption of inappropriate or bizarre postures
Schizophrenia - (Psychomotor behavior)-negative: Pacing and rocking pacing back and forth and rocking of the body
Schizophrenia - Negative (Associated features): Anhedonia inability to experience pleasure
Schizophrenia - Negative (Associated features):regression Retreat to an earlier level of development
Created by: Wends1984
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