Assignment Task: To better understand the terms that describes the behaviors that may be seen in Schizophrenia and other psychosis.
Directions: Write in the definition for each Term then write YOUR OWN example of a statement or action that reveals understanding of the term. Where applicable, write the nursing intervention including the therapeutic communication for the term.
Example:
Term: Hallucination (olfactory)
Definition: False sensory experience or perceptual experience that do not exist in reality. Looking for Assignment Help?
Example: Sensing a metallic rancid smell like, like there is a dead animal on the side of the road, but nothing is there. Ex: the client says "I smell something dead"
Nursing Intervention: Investigate the smell. Validate statement, do not argue about it, but state you do not smell it. Base your conversations in reality
- Term: Ambivalence
- Associative looseness
- Religious delusion
- Echopraxis
- Flight of Ideas
- Ideas of Reference
- Preservation
- Poverty of speech
- Anhedonia
- Apathy
- Blunted affect
- Catatonia
- Flat affect
- Avolition
- Persecutory delusions
- Thought broadcasting
- Echolalia
- EPS
- Tardive Dyskinesia
- Akathisia
- Thought Insertion
- Thought withdrawal
- Concrete thinking
- Somatic Delusions
- Delusions of Grandeur
- Clang Associations
- Term: Word Salad
- Term: Command Hallucinations
- Waxy Flexibility
- Paranoia
- Latency of response
- Preservation
- Neologisms
- Circumstantial thinking
- Visual Hallucinations