Schizophrenia
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SchizophreniaAlexa Cornwall
Allie WarrenKate Auty
Elizabeth DiMauroCourtney Bilderbeck
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Schizophrenia: a psychotic disorder (or a group of disorders) marked by severely impaired thinking, emotions, and behaviors.
Synonyms: emotional disorder, mental sickness, psychosis, personality disorder
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Diagnostic Criteria A. Characteristic symptoms:
• Delusions• Hallucinations• Disorganized speech• Grossly disorganized behavior
B. Social/occupational dysfunctionC. Duration
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SymptomsPositive: extra feelings that usually are not present
Examples: Delusions &Hallucinations
Negative: lack of behaviors or feelings that usually are present
Examples: loss of interest in everyday activities, lack of emotion, & less ability to experience pleasure
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Biological Causes• Brain Dysfunction
– chemical imbalance– Amphetamines and other
similar substances can produce schizophrenic like symptoms
– Dopamine over-activity
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Family and Schizophrenia
•Genetic FactorsTends to run in families1 in 10 percent of people with a first degree relative
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Twins•28% chance of one identical twin developing disease if other has it•Larger ventricles with schizophrenia
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• Social Causation• Social Selection• Family stress• Environmental stress
Behavioral Causes
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Definition: people with this type are preoccupied with false beliefs about being persecuted or being punished by someone
Symptoms: Suspicion of others, Episodic or continual Delusions and hallucinations, Auditory hallucinations, & Belief that they can fly
Paranoid
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Disorganized
Definition: people with this type are often confused and incoherent and have jumbled their speech, their outward behavior may be emotionless, flat or inappropriate.
Symptoms: moving slowly, unable to make decisions, forgetting or losing things, talking nonsense, and repeating movements or gestures
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CatatonicDefinition: generally immobile and unresponsive
to the world around them
Symptoms: physical immobility, excessive mobility, extreme negativism, peculiar movements, and mimicking speech or movement
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Undifferentiated When a persons symptoms do not clearly
represent any of the other subtypes
The symptoms are many and varied
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Residual
Residual schizophrenia occurs in chronic sufferers after the disappearance of positive symptoms.
It usually lasts for one year and is characterized by negative symptoms
Symptoms: little interest in life and not engage in eye contact or conversation
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Medications• Anti-anxiety • Anti-psychotic• Antidepressants• Sedatives
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Group/Family Therapy• Family therapy• Individual therapy• Cognitive therapy• Outreach and Community
support services
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Biological Treatment
• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
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Behavioral Therapy• Stress Management Training• Assertiveness Training • Communication Skills Training • Problem Solving Skills
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