11 terms in T12
Schizophrenia
Classification means placing schizophrenia into a category using agreed diagnostic rules. Clinicians use two main system
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Positive symptoms are experiences that healthy people do not normally have. They add something to a person's behaviour,
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Negative symptoms are things a person with schizophrenia loses or stops doing. Speech poverty means speaking very little
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Diagnosing schizophrenia is difficult because clinicians often disagree, and several factors — including overlapping sym
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Biological explanations argue that schizophrenia has physical causes inside the body. These include inherited genes and
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Some psychologists explain schizophrenia through family relationships and faulty thinking patterns. Toxic communication
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Doctors treat schizophrenia with antipsychotic drugs. Older 'typical' drugs mainly reduce hallucinations and delusions.
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CBT helps patients challenge the distressing beliefs caused by schizophrenia. Family therapy reduces stress in the home
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A token economy rewards patients with tokens whenever they show desirable behaviours. Staff then let patients exchange t
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An interactionist approach combines biological and psychological factors to explain schizophrenia. No single cause tells
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The diathesis-stress model says schizophrenia develops when a biological vulnerability combines with environmental stres
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