Classification and Diagnosis of schizophrenia AO1
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- Created on: 09-12-13 17:23
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- Classification and diagnosis of schizophrenia
- DSM-III designed for greater reliability. Carson claimed it had fixed the problem of inter rater reliability
- Wilks et al 2003 administered two alternate forms of the RBANS to schiz patients. the test retest reliability was high at .84
- Buckley et al 2009 estimate that comorbid depression occurs in 50% of patients, 47% of patients comorbid substance abuse
- positive symptoms more useful for diagnosis of schizo
- A diagnosis of schiz has little predictive validity
- Delusions, experiences of control, hallucinate, disordered thinking
- Affective flattening, alogia, avolition
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