Schizophrenia

Question 1

What two models do we diagnose schizophrenia with?

Answer 1

ICD-10

DSM-5

Question 2

To be diagnosed with Schizophrenia with ICD-10, what do you need to have?

Answer 2

You need to have two or more negative symptoms and only one positive symptom is needed if the delusions are bizarre

Question 3

To be diagnosed with schizophrenia with DSM-5, what do you need to have?

Answer 3

Only one of the so-called positive symptoms

Question 4

What are positive symptoms?

Answer 4

Any change in behaviour or thoughts

‘Add to thoughts’

Question 5

What are negative symptoms?

Answer 5

Normal functions are limited

‘Take away from regular abilities’

Question 6

What are the Positive Symptoms?

Answer 6

Delusions of grandeur
Delusions of persecution
Hallucinations
Echolalia

Question 7

What are delusions of grandeur?

Answer 7

False, sustained belief of importance or superiority

Question 8

What are delusions of persecution?

Answer 8

False sustained belief that others are trying to inflict suffering

Question 9

What are hallucinations?

Answer 9

A perception of things that are not present

Question 10

What is Echolalia?

Answer 10

Pathological repetition of the words of others

Question 11

What are the negative symptoms?

Answer 11

Avolition
Anhedonia
Asociality
Blunted Effect

Question 12

What is avolition?

Answer 12

Lack of drive and motivation

Question 13

What is anhedonia?

Answer 13

Loss of enjoyment of activities that were previously pleasant

Question 14

What is asociality?

Answer 14

Social withdrawal

Question 15

What is the Blunted Effect?

Answer 15

Lack of emotional response

Question 16

What are two evaluation points to do with Gender Bias?

Answer 16

Longenecker- found that men had a higher diagnosis rate than women
Cotten et al- found that female patients tend to function better than males due to the fact that they have a better family and work life

Question 17

What is two evaluation points for culture Bias?

Answer 17

Escobar- pointed out that doctors who were white are much more likely to over interpret the symptoms of black people

Harrison et al- found that the diagnosis of schizophrenia was 8x higher for Afro Carribeans grouos for white people

Question 18

What is Psychological Explanation of Schizophrenia to do with?

Answer 18

Family Dysfunction

Question 19

What are the three main theories within the psychological explanations of schizophrenia?

Answer 19

Schizophrenogenic Mother
Double bind theory
Expressed Emotion Theory

Question 20

What is the Schizophrenogenic Mother theory?

Answer 20

Where the mother tends to create a family climate characterised by secrecy and tension. This leads to distrust and develops into paranoid schizophrenia

Question 21

What is the double bind theory?

Answer 21

Where the child finds themselves trapped in the fear of doing the wrong thing. The child is punished by withdrawal of love and leaves them with an understanding of the world as dangerous and confusing

Question 22

What is expressed emotion theory?

Answer 22

To do with the level of emotion I aortic your negative emotion. The high source of stress for the patient may make them relapse

Question 23

What is the cognitive explanation for schizophrenia?

Answer 23

Dysfunctional thought processing

Question 24

What is dysfunctional thought processing?

Answer 24

A general term meaning information processing is not functioning normally and produces undesirable consequences

Question 25

What do cognitive explanations focus on?

Answer 25

Mental processing

Question 26

What did Christopher firth Identify?

Answer 26

Identifies two kinds of ‘dysfunctional through processing, that could underline some symptoms

Question 27

What are the two kinds of dysfunctional thought processing that Christopher firth found?

Answer 27

Lack of central Control

Meta Representation

Question 28

What is Lack of central control?

Answer 28

Central control is the cognitive ability to suppress automatic responses whilst we perform deliberate ones instead. Disorganised speech and thought disorder may result from the inability to suppress automatic thoughts. Schizophrenia sufferers are subject to derail et of thought and broken sentences

Question 29

What is Meta representation?

Answer 29

It is the ability to reflect on our own thoughts and behaviour. It gives us insight into own goal ps and allows us to interpret others actions.
Dysfunction in meta representation, disrupts our ability to recognise our own actions and thoughts as our own. This can explain hallucinations and thought insertion in schizophrenics