Schizoaffective

Question 1

What criteria must be met?

Answer 1

A, B, C, D Criteria

Question 2

What is criteria A?

Answer 2

An uninterrupted period of illness during which, at some time, there is either a major depressive episode, a manic episode, or a mixed episode concurrent with symptoms that meet criterion A for Schizophrenia.

Question 3

What is criteria B?

Answer 3

During the same period of illness, there have been delusions or hallucinations for at least 2 weeks in the absence of prominent mood symptoms.

Question 4

What is criteria C?

Answer 4

Symptoms that meet criteria for a mood episode are present for a substantial portion f the total duration of the active and residual periods of illness.

Question 5

What is criteria D?

Answer 5

The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition.