Schizophrenia Flashcards
What is schizophrenia?
A mental disorder characterised by withdrawn from reality.
What is type 1 schizophrenia?
Acute form characterised by positive symptoms and responsive to medication?
What is type 2 schizophrenia?
A chronic type characterised by negative symptoms and unresponsive to medication.
What are positive symptoms?
The displaying of behaviours involving loss of touch with reality.
What are negative symptoms?
The displaying of behaviours involving disruption of normal emotions and actions.
What are examples of positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
1.Auditaory Hallucinations
2.Primary Delusions
3.Thought Disorders
What are examples of negative symptoms of schizophrenia
1.Thought process disorders
2.Distrubance of effect
3.Psychomotor Disturbances
4.Avolition
How is schizophrenia?
Diagnosed in reference to classification system that are based on the idea that a group of symptoms can be classed together as a syndrome with an underlying cause and seperate from all other mental disorders.
What is co-morbidity?
The presence of one or more additional disorder or disease simultaneously occurring with schizophrenia.
What is culture bias in relation to schizophrenia?
The tendency to over-diagnosis members of other cultures as suffering from schizophrenia?
What Gender-Bias?
The tendency for diagnostic criteria to be applied differently to males and females and for there to be differences in the classification of the disorder.
What is symptom overlap?
The perception that symptoms of schizophrenia are also symptoms of other mental disorders.
What are the psychological explanations for schizophrenia?
1.Family Dysfunction
2.Cognitive Theories
3.Disfunctional thought processing
What is family disfunction?
The idea that dysfunctional family relationships and patterns of communications are related to the development of schizophrenia.
What are cognitive Explanations?
The idea the development of schizophrenia is related to maladaptive thought processing.
What is dysfunctional thought processing?
The idea that the development of schizophrenia is related to abnormal ways of thinking.
What are drug therapies?
Prime treatment for schizophrenia using antipsychotic dugs the first being chlorpromazine-chemical treatment through tablets and intravenous means.
What are typical antipsychotics?
The original neuroleptic drugs created in the 1950s to treat schizophrenia.
What are atypical antipsychotics?
A class of neuroleptic drugs produced later used to treat schizophrenia.
What is cognitive behavioural therapy?(CBT)
Treatment of abnormality that modifies thought patterns to alter behavioural and emotional states.
What is is the process of CBT?
1.Antipsychotics given to reduce psychotic thoughts
2.CBT is then undertaken once every 10 days for 12 sessions.
What is personal therapy?(PT)
Involves detailed evaluation of problems and experiences, their riggers and consequences and strategies being used to cope.
What is family therapy?
Treatment of schizophrenia by alteration of communication systems within families.
What are token economies?
A method of behaviour modification that reinforces target behaviours by awarding tokens that can be exchanged for material goods.
What is the interactionist approach?
The idea that schizophrenia results from a combination of psychological, biological and social factors.
What is the Diathesis Stress Model?
The idea that individuals have varying genetic predisposition and potentials for schizophrenia that combine with the degree of environmental stressors in their lives to form their actual amount of vulnerability to disorder.
