Schizophrenia

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Disorder characterized by DISTURBANCES in thought, emotion, and behavior

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Schizophrenia

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• excesses and distortions

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Positive symptoms

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beliefs contrary to reality

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delusions

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sensory experiences in the absence of any relevant stimulation from the environment

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hallucinations

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• thought insertions
• thought broadcasting
• external force control
• grandiose delusions
• ideas of reference

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Forms of delusions

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behavioral deficits

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Negative symptoms

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lack of motivation

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Avolition / Apathy

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impairment in social relationships

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Asociality

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lessening experience of pleasure

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Anhedonia

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amount of pleasure experienced IN-THE-MOMENT

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Consummatory pleasure

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amount of expected or anticipated pleasure from future events or activities

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Anticipatory pleasure

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lack of outward expression of emotion

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Blunted Effect

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don’t talk much

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Alogia

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problems n organizing ideas and in speaking

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Disorganized symptoms

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difficulty performing tasks of everyday living

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Disorganized behavior

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abnormal psychomotor behavior

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Movement symptoms

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gesturing repeatedly

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catatonia

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adopting an unusual posture and maintain it for long periods of time

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catatonic immobility

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schizophrenic symptoms that last from 1-6 months only

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schizoPHRENIFORM disorder

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mixtures of symptoms of schizophrenia and mood disorders

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schizoAFFECTIVE disorder

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persistent delusions of persecution or delusional jealousy

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delusional disorder

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excess of dopamine causes schizophrenia

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Dopamine theory

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making low SES to be so stressful that those who are predisposed to develop schizophrenia readily develop the disorder

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Sociogenic Hypothesis

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people with schizophrenia drift into poor neighborhoods because their illness impairs them

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Social Selection Hypothesis

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cold and dominant, conflict inducing parent who was said to produce schizophrenia in the offspring

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Schizophonogenic mother

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children who developed schizophrenia had lower IQs

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Retrospective studies

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childhood characteristics that were associated with the development of schizophrenia in early adulthood

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Prospective studies

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identifies people with early, attenuated signs of schizophrenia

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Clinical high-risk study

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designed to teach schizophrenics how to successfully manage a wide variety of interpersonal situations

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Social skills training

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computer based training in attention, memory and problem solving

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Cognitive remediation therapies

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seeks to educate people about their illness, including the symptoms of the disorder

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Psychoeducation

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coordinate the range of medical and psychological services that people with schizophrenia need

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Case management

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• protected housing units
• halfway houses
• vocational rehabilitation

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Residential treatment

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critical comments, hostility, emotional overinvolvement

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Expressed Emotion