Schizophrenia
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What age range is the peak incidence of schizophrenia onset for men?

  • 20 to 30 years
  • 15 to 25 years (correct)
  • 30 to 40 years
  • 25 to 35 years
  • When is schizophrenia usually diagnosed?

  • Middle age
  • Late adolescence or early adulthood (correct)
  • Old age
  • Early childhood
  • How is schizophrenia described in the text?

  • As a non-treatable condition
  • As a syndrome or disease process with many different varieties and symptoms (correct)
  • As a single illness with specific symptoms
  • As a contagious disease
  • What percentage of the total population is estimated to have schizophrenia?

    <p>1%</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How is the public perception of schizophrenia described in the text?

    <p>Vastly misunderstood, fearing it as dangerous and uncontrollable</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has the mental health community come to learn and educate the community at large about schizophrenia?

    <p>Schizophrenia has many different symptoms and presentations and is an illness that medication can control</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has contributed to many clients with schizophrenia living successfully in the community?

    <p>Increased effectiveness of newer atypical antipsychotic drugs and advances in community-based treatment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    At what age does schizophrenia rarely manifest?

    <p>Childhood</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How are clients with medically supervised illness and maintained treatment described in the text?

    <p>They often continue to live and sometimes work in the community with family and outside support</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the recent understanding about the control of schizophrenia?

    <p>Medication can control schizophrenia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has contributed to clients with schizophrenia living successfully in the community?

    <p>Advances in community-based treatment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a positive symptom of schizophrenia?

    <p>Hallucinations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the tendency to speak little or to convey little substance of meaning?

    <p>Alogia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of disorder is diagnosed when the client has a mixture of psychotic and mood symptoms?

    <p>Schizoaffective disorder</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the absence of any facial expression that would indicate emotions or mood?

    <p>Flat affect</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which medication may control the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

    <p>Antipsychotics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the continuous flow of verbalization in which the person jumps rapidly from one topic to another?

    <p>Flight of ideas</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the restriction of emotional feeling, tone, or mood?

    <p>Blunted affect</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is a negative symptom of schizophrenia?

    <p>Alogia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the absence of will, ambition, or drive to take action or accomplish tasks?

    <p>Avolition</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the false sensory perceptions or perceptual experiences that do not exist in reality?

    <p>Hallucinations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of disorder presents signs and symptoms of both schizophrenia and a mood disorder?

    <p>Schizoaffective disorder</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the feeling of no joy or pleasure from life or any activities or relationships?

    <p>Anhedonia</p> Signup and view all the answers

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