Schizophrenia

Question 1

What is schizophrenia?

Answer 1

A mental disorder characterised by withdrawn from reality.

Question 2

What is type 1 schizophrenia?

Answer 2

Acute form characterised by positive symptoms and responsive to medication?

Question 3

What is type 2 schizophrenia?

Answer 3

A chronic type characterised by negative symptoms and unresponsive to medication.

Question 4

What are positive symptoms?

Answer 4

The displaying of behaviours involving loss of touch with reality.

Question 5

What are negative symptoms?

Answer 5

The displaying of behaviours involving disruption of normal emotions and actions.

Question 6

What are examples of positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 6

1.Auditaory Hallucinations
2.Primary Delusions
3.Thought Disorders

Question 7

What are examples of negative symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 7

1.Thought process disorders
2.Distrubance of effect
3.Psychomotor Disturbances
4.Avolition

Question 8

How is schizophrenia?

Answer 8

Diagnosed in reference to classification system that are based on the idea that a group of symptoms can be classed together as a syndrome with an underlying cause and seperate from all other mental disorders.

Question 9

What is co-morbidity?

Answer 9

The presence of one or more additional disorder or disease simultaneously occurring with schizophrenia.

Question 10

What is culture bias in relation to schizophrenia?

Answer 10

The tendency to over-diagnosis members of other cultures as suffering from schizophrenia?

Question 11

What Gender-Bias?

Answer 11

The tendency for diagnostic criteria to be applied differently to males and females and for there to be differences in the classification of the disorder.

Question 12

What is symptom overlap?

Answer 12

The perception that symptoms of schizophrenia are also symptoms of other mental disorders.

Question 13

What are the psychological explanations for schizophrenia?

Answer 13

1.Family Dysfunction
2.Cognitive Theories
3.Disfunctional thought processing

Question 14

What is family disfunction?

Answer 14

The idea that dysfunctional family relationships and patterns of communications are related to the development of schizophrenia.

Question 15

What are cognitive Explanations?

Answer 15

The idea the development of schizophrenia is related to maladaptive thought processing.

Question 16

What is dysfunctional thought processing?

Answer 16

The idea that the development of schizophrenia is related to abnormal ways of thinking.

Question 17

What are drug therapies?

Answer 17

Prime treatment for schizophrenia using antipsychotic dugs the first being chlorpromazine-chemical treatment through tablets and intravenous means.

Question 18

What are typical antipsychotics?

Answer 18

The original neuroleptic drugs created in the 1950s to treat schizophrenia.

Question 19

What are atypical antipsychotics?

Answer 19

A class of neuroleptic drugs produced later used to treat schizophrenia.

Question 20

What is cognitive behavioural therapy?(CBT)

Answer 20

Treatment of abnormality that modifies thought patterns to alter behavioural and emotional states.

Question 21

What is is the process of CBT?

Answer 21

1.Antipsychotics given to reduce psychotic thoughts
2.CBT is then undertaken once every 10 days for 12 sessions.

Question 22

What is personal therapy?(PT)

Answer 22

Involves detailed evaluation of problems and experiences, their riggers and consequences and strategies being used to cope.

Question 23

What is family therapy?

Answer 23

Treatment of schizophrenia by alteration of communication systems within families.

Question 24

What are token economies?

Answer 24

A method of behaviour modification that reinforces target behaviours by awarding tokens that can be exchanged for material goods.

Question 25

What is the interactionist approach?

Answer 25

The idea that schizophrenia results from a combination of psychological, biological and social factors.

Question 26

What is the Diathesis Stress Model?

Answer 26

The idea that individuals have varying genetic predisposition and potentials for schizophrenia that combine with the degree of environmental stressors in their lives to form their actual amount of vulnerability to disorder.