Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia: a psychotic disorder (or a
group of disorders) marked by severely
impaired thinking, emotions, and behaviors.
Synonyms: emotional disorder,
mental sickness, psychosis,
personality disorder
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Diagnostic Criteria
A. Characteristic symptoms:
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Delusions
Hallucinations
Disorganized speech
Grossly disorganized behavior
B. Social/occupational dysfunction
C. Duration
Symptoms
Positive: extra feelings that
usually are not present
Examples: Delusions &Hallucinations
Negative: lack of behaviors or feelings
that usually are present
Examples: loss of interest in everyday
activities, lack of emotion, & less ability
to experience pleasure
Biological Causes
• Brain Dysfunction
– chemical imbalance
– Amphetamines and other
similar substances can
produce schizophrenic like
symptoms
– Dopamine over-activity
Family
and Schizophrenia
•Genetic Factors
Tends to run in families
1 in 10 percent of people with a first degree relative
Twins
•28% chance of one identical
twin developing disease if
other has it
•Larger ventricles with
schizophrenia
Behavioral Causes
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Social Causation
Social Selection
Family stress
Environmental stress
Paranoid
Definition: people with this type are preoccupied
with false beliefs about being persecuted or being
punished by someone
Symptoms: Suspicion of others, Episodic
or continual Delusions and hallucinations,
Auditory hallucinations, & Belief that they
can fly
Disorganized
Definition: people with this type are often
confused and incoherent and have jumbled
their speech, their outward behavior may be
emotionless, flat or inappropriate.
Symptoms: moving slowly, unable to
make decisions, forgetting or losing
things, talking nonsense, and
repeating movements or gestures
Catatonic
Definition: generally immobile and
unresponsive to the world around them
Symptoms: physical immobility, excessive mobility,
extreme negativism, peculiar movements, and
mimicking speech or movement
Undifferentiated
When a persons symptoms do not clearly
represent any of the other subtypes
The symptoms are many
and varied
Residual
Residual schizophrenia occurs in chronic
sufferers after the disappearance of positive
symptoms.
It usually lasts for one year and is
characterized by negative symptoms
Symptoms: little interest in life and
not engage in eye contact or
conversation
Medications
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Anti-anxiety
Anti-psychotic
Antidepressants
Sedatives
Group/Family Therapy
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Family therapy
Individual therapy
Cognitive therapy
Outreach and Community
support services
Biological
Treatment
• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Behavioral Therapy
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Stress Management Training
Assertiveness Training
Communication Skills Training
Problem Solving Skills
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