4.1 Classification Of Scizophrenia

Question 1

What is avolition?

Answer 1

The reduction, difficulty, or inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed behaviour, often mistaken for apparent disinterest

Question 2

What are delusions?

Answer 2

Firmly held erroneous beliefs that are caused by distortions of reasoning or misinterpretations of perceptions or experiences

Question 3

What are hallucinations?

Answer 3

Distortions or exaggerations of perception in any of the senses, most notably auditory hallucinations

Question 4

What are negative symptoms?

Answer 4

Appear to reflect a diminution or loss of normal functioning

Question 5

What are positive symptoms?

Answer 5

Appear to reflect an excess or distortion of normal functioning

Question 6

What is schizophrenia?

Answer 6

A type of psychosis characterised by a profound disruption of cognition and emotion

Question 7

What is speech poverty?

Answer 7

The lessening of speech fluency and productivity, which reflects slowing or blocked thoughts

Question 8

How long and how many symptoms do you have had to have be diagnosed for schizophrenia?

Answer 8

Two or more for at least one month

Question 9

What is disorganised speech?

Answer 9

Disorganized speech typically arises from abnormal thought processes.
A person engaging in disorganized speech might quickly jump from one unrelated topic to another.
Engage in incoherent “word salad,” repeat things another person says back to them, or appear to be speaking with nonexistent entities

Question 10

What is catatonic behaviour?

Answer 10

inability or motivation to initiate a task

Question 11

What is speech poverty (alogia)?

Answer 11

lessening of speech fluency and productivity

Question 12

summarise the nature of schizophrenia

Answer 12

a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality
diagnosis made on basis of criteria on DSM-V, requires two or more active symptoms for at least one month
positive symptoms reflect an excess or distortion of normal functions
includes hallucinations, delusions, disorganised speech and grossly disorganised or catatonic behaviour
negative symptoms reflect a reduction or loss of normal functions
include speech poverty (alogia), avolition, affective flattening and anhedonia