CLP-4143 Study Guide - Final Guide: Psychosis, Echopraxia, Cultural Relativism
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Psychosis inability to tell the difference between what is real and what is unreal, psychotic disorder when inability is distressing and impairing, schizophrenia is the most common psychotic. Clp exam 4: psychotic symptoms, positive delusions and hallucinations, negative negative sx, disorganized disorganized thoughts/speech, disorganized motor behavior, positive sx characterized by the presence of unusual perceptions, thoughts, or behaviors. Positive refers to the fact that sx are salient, added experiences. More responsive to medication: delusions ideas that individual believes are true, but highly unlikely/impossible. Fixed beliefs that aren"t amendable to change in light of conflicting evidence . Different from thoughts we tell ourselves bc: bizarreness, preoccupation, resistance. In schizophrenia bizarre and are extremely distressing and impairing. Types of hallucinations auditory, visual, tactile (touch), somatic: negative sx characterized by losses or deficits in certain domains. Negative refers to the absence of behaviors, feelings, experiences, etc. Less obvious but more impairment, less responsive to meds.
