Characteristics of Schizophrenia
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Define schizophrenia
A psychotic disorder that causes a variety of psychological symptoms
Typified as a lack of contact with reality
Episodic disorder - Episodes of active schzizophrenia last 1-6 months then normal functioning occurs
Typified as a lack of contact with reality
Episodic disorder - Episodes of active schzizophrenia last 1-6 months then normal functioning occurs
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How many people in England and Wales are diagnosed with schizophrenia?
220,000 people - 1/100 people
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What is the mean age for those diagnosed with schizophrenia?
15-35
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Are men and women affected equally?
Yes - but women are diagnosed 10-15years later than men
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Define positive symptoms of schizophrenia:
Symptoms that the person experiences in addition to their normal behaviour
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Examples of positive symptoms:
Hallucinations
Delusions
Disordered Thinking
Delusions
Disordered Thinking
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Describe hallucinations:
Perceptions that are not real
- Auditory, Tactile, Visual
Lewandoski - Estimated 20% of schizophrenic individuals have tactile hallucinations - sensations of touch
Formication - Refwrs to tactile hallucinations of bugs under the skin
- Auditory, Tactile, Visual
Lewandoski - Estimated 20% of schizophrenic individuals have tactile hallucinations - sensations of touch
Formication - Refwrs to tactile hallucinations of bugs under the skin
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Describe delusions:
Beliefs that are not real
Delusions of Persecution: Based on the idea that a person, group or organisation want to harm the individual
Delusion of Grandiosity: Suggests the individual is special in some way -Superiority and Powerful
Delusions of Persecution: Based on the idea that a person, group or organisation want to harm the individual
Delusion of Grandiosity: Suggests the individual is special in some way -Superiority and Powerful
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Describe disordered thinking:
A person’s thoughts and discourse seem to jump from one topic to another for no apparant reason and shows no logical flow
Speech is muddled and incoherent
Thoughts are not there own
Speech is muddled and incoherent
Thoughts are not there own
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Define negative symptoms:
Symptoms that the person experiences that inhibit them from demonstrating normal behaviours
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Describe alogia:
Poverty of speech
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Describe Avolition:
Individuals are unconcerned with what is going on in their surroundings & with a lack of goal directed behaviour
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Describe Anhedonia:
When an individual does not react appropriately to pleasurable experiences
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Describe Flatness of Affect:
Individuals show no emotion and no facial expressions with behaviour being described as apathetic and speech patterns are monotonous
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Define catatonic behaviour:
Fast, repetitive movements to little to no movement at all
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Describe echopraxia:
Schizophrenics mimic the movement of others
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