Schizophrenia

Question 1

what is the classification of schizophrenia?

Answer 1

more common in men and working class people

Question 2

what are positive symptoms?

Answer 2

additional symptoms beyond normal experience:

• hallucinations (sensory with no reality)
• delusions (belief without reality)

Question 3

what are negative symptoms?

Answer 3

deficits in normal experience:
- abolition (loss of motivation)
speech poverty (affects frequency and quality\)

Question 4

• reliability

Answer 4

• Cheniaux got 2 psychiatrists to rate 100 patients with the dam and ICD
• one diagnose 26 with DSM AND 44 with ICD - and the other 13 with DSM and 24 with ICD
• shows bad inter rater reliability

Question 5

• validity

Answer 5

Cheniaux shows more people are diagnosed with the ICD than DSM

• different diagnostic systems don’t agree
• criterion validity poor

Question 6

• co-morbidity

Answer 6

• Buckley shows around half of patients also have other diagnoses like depression and addiction

Question 7

• gender bias

Answer 7

• since the 80’s more men than women have been diagnosed
• (Longnecker)
• bias in diagnosis as women are under diagnosed due to good interpersonal functioning