Classifications

Question 1

what is schizophrenia?

Answer 1

• mental illness occurring in late adolescence or early childhood
• classified as psychosis
• sufferer has no concept of reality

Question 2

positive symptoms

Answer 2

• appear to reflect an excess or distortion of normal functioning
• hallucinations, delusions, disorganised speech, disorganised or catatonic behaviour

Question 3

negative symptoms

Answer 3

• appear to reflex a diminution or loss of normal functioning
• speech poverty, abolition, affective flattering, anhedonia

Question 4

avolition

Answer 4

the reduction, difficulty, or inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed behaviour, often mistaken for apparent disinterest

Question 5

delusions

Answer 5

irrational beliefs, usually involved in the idea that the person is being persecuted in some way

Question 6

hallucinations

Answer 6

unusual sensory experiences related to the environment the person is in e.g. seeing things hearing voices that don’t exist

Question 7

disorganised speech

Answer 7

abnormal thought processes where the individual has issues organising their thoughts, slip from one topic to another quickly

Question 8

alogia (speech poverty)

Answer 8

changes in speech patterns e.g. delayed verbal response or a significant drop in quality of communication

Question 9

grossly disorganised or catatonic behaviour

Answer 9

inability or motivation to initiate a task, or complete it once it had started, may act in bizarre ways or struggle to react to the immediate environment quickly

Question 10

diagnosis of schizophrenia

Answer 10

clinicians use DSM-v in the US and ICD-11 in Europe both with different criteria (can lead to misdiagnosis)