Schizophrenia A brief overview of AQA (B) schizophrenia 1.5 / 5 based on 3 ratings ? PsychologySchizophreniaA2/A-level Created by: StephanieCreated on: 26-01-11 09:44 Classification DSM 1V classification system Temporal criteria: - Before 45 years of age - Symptoms occured for at least 6 months - Deterioration in functioning Substantive criteria: - Psychosis - Affects psychological processes 1 of 7 Types of schizophrenia Type 1- Positive symptoms Type 2- Negative symptoms Paranoid Disorganised Catatonic Undifferentiated (Test yourself and try to list 2 symptoms for the above types) 2 of 7 Problems of diagnosis Problems: Cross-over of symptoms Labelling Side effects of drug treatments 3 of 7 Biological Approach Genetics: -Twin studies Gottesman - Adoption studies Hesten, Tienara - Evaluation - Diathesis stress model Dopamine hypothesis: - PET scan - Excess neurotransmitter dopamine Brain abnormality 4 of 7 Socio-cultural - Labelling Rosenhan - Expressed emotion Vaughn - Family dysfunction- schizophrenagenic family Laing - Double bind Bateson - Diathesis stress model 5 of 7 Cognitive - Faulty information processing - Overload of auditory information - Inability to selectively attend Becky and Rector 6 of 7 Treaments - Anti-psychotic drugs Cole - Behavioural treaments - Token economy Paul & Lentz - Psychotherapy-psychodynamic therapy - Cognitive-insight therapy Stein & Test - Community care 7 of 7
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