3 - Schizophrenia Flashcards
Name the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
hallucinations
delusions
disorganised speech
disorganised behaviour
Name the negative symptoms of schizophrenia
speech poverty
avolition
affective flattening
Name 6 issues associated with the classification and diagnosis of schizophrenia
Reliability & validity of diagnosis & classification
co-morbidity
culture
gender bias
symptom overlap
Name 2 biological explanations for schizophrenia
genetics
neural correlates
(e.g dopamine hypothesis)
Name 2 psychological explanations for schizophrenia
family dysfunction
cognitive explanations
(e.g dysfunctional thought processing)
Name 2 drug therapies used to treat schizophrenia
typical
atypical antipsychotics.
Name 3 psychological treatments used to treat schizophrenia
CBT
Family Therapy
Token economies
Name the model used in the interactionist approach
Diathesis-stress model
