schizophrenia- clinical characteristics.
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- schizophrenia- clinical characteristics.
- positive symptoms (type 1)- involves: displaying the behaviour concerning a loss of touch with reality.
- hallucinations- bizzare, unreal perceptions of the environment.
- auditory hallucination
- hearing voices that others can hear
- visual hallucination
- seeing lights, objects or faces that others cant see
- olfactory hallucination
- smelling things that others cant smell
- tactile hallucination
- feeling that bugs are crawling on or under the skin or something touching the skin
- formication is the namr for a sensation- resembles insects crawling on the skin.
- sensation is so real to the person experiencing it
- Kathryn Lewandowski et al (2009)- 20% of people with schizophrenia have tactile halucinations- percieving sensations that someone is touching the skin.
- auditory hallucination
- delusions- bizzare beliefs that seem real to the schizophrenic- but are not real.
- delusions or persecution or paranoid delusions-
- beliefs that people are plotting against them, being spied upon, talked about by strangers or deliberately victimised.
- delusions or grandeur
- beliefs that theyare someone grand or famous or belief that they have special magical powers.
- delusions of refrence
- events in the environment appear to be directly related to them.
- delusions or persecution or paranoid delusions-
- thought disorder- odd reasoning
- disordered thinking
- evident through examining the speech of those individuals with schizophrenia
- the persons thoughts and discourse seem to jump from one topic to another, for no apparent reason
- patients speech might be muddled and incoherent- reffered to as a 'word salad'
- means: frustrating for those with schizophrenia and for those trying to communicate with them
- some individuals with schizophrenia sometimes report that the thoughts in their heafs are not their own- thought insertion
- person belives the thoughts have been placed there by a third party
- disordered thinking
- hallucinations- bizzare, unreal perceptions of the environment.
- negative symptoms (type 2)- involves: displaying of behaviours concerning disruption of normal emotions and actions.
- occur in long lasting episodes and are resistant to medication
- negative symptoms- suffers not being able to function effectively in society (relationships, work etc)
- algolia
- reduced fluency of speech or poverty of speech
- people with schizophrenia lack meaning, even with short simple answers can pose a problem
- anhedonia
- an individual does not react appropriately to pleasureable experiences
- avolition or apathy
- avolition occurs when people seem to be indifferent to or unconcerned with whats going on around them
- distinct lack of goal-directed behaviour and loss of interestin normal goals, which people who are unaware of the individuals diagnosis may percieve just as disinterest
- cataleptic stupor
- reduced motor activity- schizophrenic could stand motionless in bizzare positions
- at the other end of the spectrum- the person with schizophrenia may make fast, repetitve and useless movments
- echopraxia
- repetitive echoing of words spoken by others or immitations of the mannerisms of other people.
- disorganised speech
- innapropriate speech
- speech patterns are repetitive- do not rise and fall like a normal speech pattern does
- positive symptoms (type 1)- involves: displaying the behaviour concerning a loss of touch with reality.
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