Schizophrenia (P3)

Question 1

schizophrenia

Answer 1

A severe mental disorder where contact with reality and insight are impaired, an example of psychosis

Question 2

what are the 2 major systems for the classification of mental disorder?

Answer 2

World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Disease (ICD-10)
American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual edition 5 (DSM-5)

Question 3

how does the DSM-5 and ICD-10 differ in their classification of schizophrenia?

Answer 3

in the DSM-5 system one of the positive symptoms must be present for diagnosis whereas two or more negative symptoms are sufficient under ICD

Question 4

what did both DSM-5 and ICD-10 do?

Answer 4

dropped subtypes of schizophrenia because they tended to be inconsistent

Question 5

what are positive symptoms?

Answer 5

additional experiences beyond those of ordinary existence
Hallucinations
Delusions

Question 6

what are negative symptoms?

Answer 6

involve the loss of usual abilities and experiences
Speech poverty
Avolition

Question 7

what are hallucinations?

Answer 7

unusual sensory experiences
some hallucinations are related to events in the environment whereas others bear no relationship to the environment

Question 8

what are delusions?

Answer 8

irrational beliefs