Schizophrenia Flashcards
Schizophrenia
Is a thought process disorder where it is characterised by disruption to thoughts , precpetions and belief
Two different types of devolping schizophrenia
The onset of schizophrenia can be acute where behaviour changes over a short period of time
Chronic is when a gradual deterioration in mental health that devolves slowly over time
5 clinical characteristics of schizophrenia
Perceptual symptoms
Social symptoms
Cognitive symptoms
Affective/emotional symptoms
Behavioural symptoms
Perceptual symptoms
Auditory hallucinations these are the most common type of hallucinations but there are others like see taste feel etc
Social symptoms
Social withdraw- not taking part or enjoying social situations
Cognitive symptoms
Delusions -believing things that are true people can have delusions of grandeur where they believe they are more important then they are or paranoia where they believe someone is out to get them
Language impairments -irrelevant and incoherent speech they may also repeat sounds others say and speak nonsense and speech poverty (limited replies)
Affective / emotional symptoms
Avoltion - lack of drive , motivation or interest in achieving goals
Lack of interest in hygiene
Lack of emotion
Inappropriate emotions
Behavioural symptoms
Stereotyped behaviour - continuously repeating actions which are often strange
Psychomotor disturbance- not having control over your muscles
Positive symptoms and negative of schizophrenia
Positive - hallucinations,delsuisons jumbled speech disorganised behaviour
Negative -speech poverty , lack of emotion ,avoliation , lack of ability to
Descriptive validity
How similar inviduals diagnosed are with the disorder are
Aetiological validity
How similar the cause of the disorder is for each suffer
Predictive validity
How useful the diagnostic categories are for predicting the right treatment
Comorbidty
Having two or more conditions at the same time
Biological explanation for schizophrenia
Inherited factors and dysfunction of brain activity in the development of a mental disorder
Genetic factors explanation for schizophrenia
Inherited factors make certain behaviour more likely to devils a behaviour or metal disorder
