Unit 4 - Schizophrenia - Flashcards in A Level and IB Psychology

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Paul and Lentz 1977

Token economy; found after 4.5 years, 98% released, normal this was 45%

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Brown 1979

Schizophrenics in families that expressed high levels of criticism, hostility or over-involvement had more relapse rates than those less expressive in emotions.

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Falloon et al 1985

Relapse rates were far lower for schiz patients receiving family therapy than those receiving therapy. 50% readmitted, 11% readmitted with family therapy.

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Scheff 1966

Schizophrenia is largely a social role - conform- self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Hemsley 1993

Problem is the breakdown between stored schemas and current sensory input being confused.

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Frith 1992

Claimed positive symptoms may occur due to a problem with self-monitoring, so fail to keep track of their own intentions. Regard thoughts as alien.

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Brown

50% patients recently diagnosed with the disorder had experienced 1 or more major life events in the 3 weeks before diagnosis.

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Gottesman

Inherited through genes. Summarised 40 studies of twins and found concordance rates for monozygotic twins about 48% compared to only 17% for dizygotic.

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Wahlberg et al

Children at a high genetic risk did well if their adopted families provided a supportive environment.

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Tienari

Took 155 schizo mothers who gave up their children for adoption and compared them to 155 who didn't have a schizo parent. Found 10.3% of children with schizo mothers developed the disorder compared to 1.1% without.

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Seidman 1990

Post-mortem assessments of schizo brains found more dopamine receptors than in those without schiz.

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Birchwood and Jackson 2001

There is no evidence the drugs reduce negative symptoms.

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Chanpattana 2007

Found patients receiving a combination of drug therapy and ECT found significant improvements in QOL and social functioning, esp when ECT was administered 3 times a week. However, in some cases ECT led to a worsening of negative symptoms.

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Ellasson and Ross

People with dissociative identity disorder have more symptoms.

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Beck et al 1961

Reliability was 54% when 2 psychiatrists diagnosed 154 patients.

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Harrison et al 1984

Showed an over-diagnosis of schizophrenia in West Indian patients - misunderstood symptoms - cultural relativism.

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Schizophrenics in families that expressed high levels of criticism, hostility or over-involvement had more relapse rates than those less expressive in emotions.

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Brown 1979

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