Schz characteristics Flashcards
Where is the criteria for schz
In the UK and Europe its the ICD-10, a medical classification laid out by WHO.
The DSM-5 in the use is used instead and published by the APA
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The characteristics of schz involve cognitive, behavioural and emotional dysfunctions. The diagnoses involved the recognition of a cluster of symptoms associated with impaired occupational or social functioning. Symptoms will mostly vary. However, in 1959 Kurt Schneider categorised the symptoms in either positive or negative. Positive symptoms add to normal behaviour, negative take away from them.
Predomal symptoms
Predomal symptoms happen a few weeks or months before the real symptoms of schz show. Found typically in young people.
Involve:
Loss of interest in usual activities
Avoiding company of others
Staying away from school or work
Generalised anxiety
mild degrees of depression
Hallucinations (auditory and visual)
When someone sees, smells, tastes or feels things that do not exist outside their mind. This is a positive symptoms
Auditory- Some people report hearing friendly coves, but most say they are rude and critical. Research using brain scans say that there are changes with speech area of the brains of people with schz.
Tactile- When someones sense they are being touched when they aren’t. E.g Formication.
Visual- seeing thing that aren’t there
Delusions
A belief held with complete conviction, even though it’s based on a mistaken, strange unrealistic views. Positive symptom
Persecution- a person someone’s is going to be harmed by and individual or organisation.
Grandiosity- A belief that someones is special in someway.
Reference- A belief that things like advertisements are sending them hidden messages.
Disordered thinking
Rapidly shifting between topics with no connection between them. Preservation: Repeating the same words over and over again, using made up words, rhyming without meaning. Positive symptom
Alogia
Disruption in the thought process that leads to lack of speech and issues with verbal fluency. Negative
Thinking- may report having thoughts in their head that are not their own. Insertion
Speech- word salad
Avolition
A lack of motivation or willingness to complete tasks or goals even if it involves a reward. Negative.
Diagnosis
Hard to receive. A lot of symptoms similar to OCD, depression and anxiety. Have to display the negative symptoms and one positive symptom in the last 6 months to receive a diagnosis.
Uk population
According to the Royal psychiatrists, schz affects around every 100 people over the course of their life
Gender
Affect men and women equally
sch and spd
They are not the same. Many symptoms in schz, but split personality is not one of them. The word schz derives from the greek words “split” and “mind”
Violent behaviour
Schz do not engage in this.Mostly a danger to themselves
age of diagnostic
16-35
