Symptoms and features of schizophrenia

Question 1

What do you use to make a diagnosis

Answer 1

DSM-5

Question 2

What does DSM required to make diagnosis?

Answer 2

Two of the four key symptoms
Have at least one month of active symptoms and six months of disturbance to every day functioning

Question 3

What are positive symptoms?

Answer 3

Gaining new experiences
Delusions

Question 4

What is negative symptoms

Answer 4

Lost element of functioning
Lack of emotional or speech

Question 5

Name the four symptoms

Answer 5

Thought insertion
Hallucinations
Delusions
Disorganised thought

Question 6

Thought insertion

Answer 6

Put some believes, thought I’m not there and have been implanted by external source

Question 7

Hallucinations

Answer 7

False perception
Involuntary and vivid, perceptual experiences occur in absence of external stimulus
Visual and auditory are most common

Question 8

Delusions

Answer 8

Fixed beliefs that are not amerable to change in light of conflicting evidence

Question 9

Disorganised thought

Answer 9

Speech or tangentiality

Question 10

What is the lifetime prevalence?

Answer 10

0.3-0.7%
Varies with ethnicity etc
Onset earlier in males (early to mid 20s), females (late 20s)
Occurs equally in men and women

Question 11

Strength

Answer 11

Reliable
Kappa value 0.46 of DSM-5
Regier et al (2013)

Question 12

Counterargument

Answer 12

Diagnosing schizo not easy as symptoms overlap with other disorders

Question 13

Weakness

Answer 13

Cultural differences make diagnoses difficult
Hard if client is different culture to clinician