A severe mental illness where contact with reality and insight are impaired. An example of psychosis.
A personality disorder.
7. How long must the symptoms be present for, using ICD-10?
Only once.
They have to be present for most of the time, during a period of ONE month or more.
They don't have to be present at all.
They have to be present for most of the time, during a period of TWO MONTHS or more.
8. What does EE stand for?
Emotional Emergency
Emotional Emails
Expressed Emotion
Emotion Explanations
9. Name two examples of positive symptoms.
Metarepresentation and Central Control
Family dysfunction and schizophrenogenic mother.
Hallucinations and Delusions
Speech poverty and avolition
10. What is the double-bind theory?
Fear of doing the wrong thing, leads to the punishment of withdrawal of love.
A cold, rejecting, controlling mother.
Negative symptoms.
Not understanding either theory.
11. What is EE?
A positive symptom of schizophrenia.
Abnormal mental functioning.
EE is the level of emotion, in particular negative emotion, expressed towards a patient by the carers.
A negative symptom of schizophrenia.
12. What does the double-bind theory leave you feeling like?
Confused.
Leaves them with the view of the world that is confusing and dangerous.
Cold, rejecting and controlling.
Schizophrenic.
13. What does the schizophrenogenic mother lead to?
Delusions and speech poverty.
Schizophrenia.
Paranoid delusions and ultimately schizophrenia.
Avolition and speech poverty.
14. What does symptom overlap mean?
When there are two different reasons as to why somebody is experiencing positive symptoms.
When two or more conditions share the same symptoms, calls the question of validity of classifying the two disorders separately.
The occurrence of two illnesses or conditions together, for example a person has both schizophrenia and a personality disorder.
When there are two different reasons as to why somebody is suffering with schizophrenia.
15. Name two examples of negative symptoms.
Metarepresentation and Central Control
Family dysfunction and schizophrenogenic mother.
Avolition and Speech Poverty.
Hallucinations and Delusions.
16. What characteristic does a schizophrenogenic mother have?
Caring, trustworthy and friendly.
Loving, friendly, kind.
Cold, rejecting, controlling.
Horrible, trustworthy, unfriendly.
17. What does dysfunctional thought processing mean?
When there is a divorced family.
A general term meaning information processing that is not functioning normally and produces undesirable consequences.
Explanations that focus on mental processes such as thinking, language and attention.
When somebody cannot think straight.
18. Who created the double-bind theory?
Reichmann
Ripke
Bateson
Jauhar
19. How long must the symptoms be present for, using DSM-5?
A person must have at least TWO of the following symptoms most of the time, during a ONE month period, with some level of disturbance being present for over SIX MONTHS.
No symptoms are needed.
A person must have at least THREE of the following symptoms, for at least FOUR MONTHS.
A person must have at least ONE symptom for a period of SIX months or more.
20. Who conducted the study about the Schizophrenogenic Mother?
