Diagnosis and Classification of SZ

Question 1

Classification

Answer 1

• the process of organising symptoms into categories based on which symptoms cluster together in sufferers

Question 2

Positive symptom

Answer 2

an excess or distortion of normal functions: including hallucinations and delusions

Question 3

Hallucinations

Answer 3

• auditory or visual perceptions of things that are not present

Question 4

Delusions

Answer 4

• false beliefs
• person is convinced that they are someone powerful
• person could be paranoid and worrying that people are out to get them

Question 5

Psychomotor Disturbances

Answer 5

• include rocking backwards and forwards, twitches & repetitive behaviours
• catatonia - staying in position for hours, cut off from the world

Question 6

Negative Symptoms

Answer 6

atypical experiences that represent the loss of usual experience such as clear thinking or ‘normal’ levels of motivation

Question 7

Avolition

Answer 7

• difficult to begin or keep up with goal directed activity
• reduced motivation
• poor hygiene and grooming

Question 8

Speech Poverty

Answer 8

• changes in speech pattern
• delay in verbal responses during convo
• speech disorganisation
• speech is incoherent or changes topic mid convo