Psychotic Disorders
We see changes in psychosis when we see changes in thinking,
behavior, and emotions.
Delusional Thinking
Disturbed Emotions/
Communication
Hallucinations and
Sensations
Personality
Disintegration, lack of
thought coordination
Delusional Thinking
People who suffer from delusions
hold false beliefs that they keep
insisting are true.
People think they are
being controlled
Believe body is rotting
away
Depressive Delusions Somatic Delusions Grandeur delusions Delusions of influence
People believe they
did something
horrible
Think you are
extremely important
Hallucinations and
Sensations
These are imaginary sensations,
such as seeing, hearing, or smelling
things that simply don’t exist.
Can get violent when
people obey their
hallucinations
Disturbed Emotions
and Communication
We see people with emotions that
may swing violently between
extremes. Or flat affect, showing
no signs of emotion.
We see communication symptoms
to be when people can use only
their actions to communicate.
Personality
Disintegration
This is a break with reality brought
on by the previously mentioned
disordered.
We see a person’s thoughts, actions,
and emotions no longer coordinate.
Disorder Research
We are going to take the remainder of the block today to do some research
of a disorder that you find particularly interesting.
You will be creating a small informational poster that we will use to inform
others.
Some things you will want to find/answer;
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
What are characteristics of your disorder?
Summary of your disorder
Case studies of your disorder/examples
Implications/how is it maladaptive
Treatments/cures
Images
Anything else interesting
I will provide for you a list to get started, but you may choose anything.