Exam 4: Mental Health (New 2023/ 2024 Update) Complete Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct- Galen

Exam 4: Mental Health (New 2023/ 2024 Update) Complete Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct- Galen

Exam 4: Mental Health (New 2023/ 2024
Update) Complete Guide with Questions and
Verified Answers| 100% Correct- Galen
QUESTION
Schizophrenia prodromal phase
Answer:
Before diagnosis

• Deterioration
• Social withdrawal
• Role functioning impairment
• Odd behavior
• Inappropriate affect
  QUESTION
  Polydipsia
  Answer:
  Excessive thirst
• Schizophrenia
  QUESTION
  Schizophrenia risk factors
  Answer:
• Low birth weight, maternal diabetes, and oxygen deprivation
• People born in urban areas
• Born during winter/spring
• Fathers older than 35
  QUESTION

Positive symptoms of schizophrenia
Answer:
The presence of something that should not be present
QUESTION
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Answer:
The absence of appropriate behaviors
QUESTION
Cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia
Answer:
Impaired memory, attention, thinking judgement, or problem solving
QUESTION
Affective symptoms of schizophrenia
Answer:
Symptoms involving emotions and their expression (affect)
QUESTION
Reality testing
Answer:
Distinguishes fact from fantasy

• Severely impaired in psychosis
  QUESTION
  Delusion

Answer:
A false fixed belief
QUESTION
Hallucinations
Answer:
A sensory experience for which no external stimulus exists
QUESTION
Command hallucinations
Answer:
Hearing voices that direct the person to take action
QUESTION
Interventions for patients with hallucinations
Answer:

• Provide a safe environment
• Reassure the patient you’re there to help
• Reality testing
• Say their name
• Distraction
  QUESTION
  Idea of reference
  Answer:
  Thinking events that happened to other people happened to you
  QUESTION
  First generation antipsychotics
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