Exam 13: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

One of the attempts at improving patient compliance in regard to taking antipsychotic medication involves the use of ____________.

All of the following factors seem to be related to patients' noncompliance with medication EXCEPT ______________.

Which of the following is the most accurate definition of flat affect?

Consuela believes that she is the wicked stepmother and her daughter Carmella believes she is Cinderella. If they had been diagnosed using the DSM-IV-TR, the condition would have been called removed from DSM-5 and was added as a specifier to delusional disorder.

Callie has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. This means that in addition to schizophrenic symptoms, she also has symptoms of

Antoinette believes that her brother is not really her brother. He has, in fact, been replaced by a double. This is known as _______________ syndrome.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Toward the end of the 19th century, Emil Kraeplin, studying the disorder we now call schizophrenia, used the term because he observed that the onset of symptoms often occurred before adulthood.

In regard to the ways that drugs affect neurotransmitters, which of the following is TRUE?

Identify and describe the stages of schizophrenic development. Be sure to include approximate ages as well as severity in your description.

The term "schizophrenia" was introduced circa 1908 by a Swiss psychiatrist named

Research suggests that treatments such as individual social skills training and family interventions

In working with schizophrenic patients, mental health professionals typically distinguish between symptoms (an excess or distortion of normal behavior) and

In the 1850s, a French physician named Benedict Morel used the terms demence (loss of mind) and precoce (early, premature) to describe what we now know as schizophrenia because he observed that the onset of symptoms often occurs

Which of the following factors is true in the treatment of schizophrenia?

An integrated treatment approach to schizophrenia would include

Schizophrenia appears to be more frequently diagnosed in minorities in a number of countries. An explanation for this is that

Since the latter half of the 20th century, the policy of deinstitutionalization (time-limited hospital stays for psychotic patients) has resulted in

What is the generic name of the antipsychotic medication Haldol?

Current research suggests that