Approaches to Schizophrenia

Question 1

What are the three types of classified symptoms in schizophrenia?

Answer 1

Positive, negative and cognitive

Question 2

What symptoms must be experienced for diagnosis?

Answer 2

Overall presence for at least 6 months, MUST experience either hallucinations or delusions leading to a decline in self-care/ functioning

Question 3

What are the two cognitive approaches to explaining Sz?

Answer 3

Cognitive biases approach and cognitive deficits approach

Question 4

What is the cognitive deficits approach to Sz?

Answer 4

People with sz have deficits in memory, attention and perception

Question 5

What is the cognitive biases approach to Sz?

Answer 5

People with Sz have a deviation in judgement in which illogical inferences are made about people.

Question 6

How does the psychodynamic approach explain sz?

Answer 6

Regression to the pre-ego stage (no sense of self) with efforts (symptoms) to re-establish control; schizophrenogenic mothers.

Question 7

How does Lacanian psychoanalysis treat Sz?

Answer 7

Acceptance of the individual’s perception of reality and working towards a productive belief system within their ‘world’

Question 8

What are the prime environmental suspects in schizophrenia?

Answer 8

Urban upbringing and migration