Schizophrenia Definitions

Mental disorder characterised by withdrawal from reality

Acute form characterised by +ve symptoms and responsive to meds

Chronic type characterised by -ve symptoms and unresponsive to meds

Displaying of beh’s involving loss of touch with reality

Displaying of beh’s involving disruption of normal emotions and actions

Perception of something being real that doesn’t truly exist

False belief that’s resistant to confrontation with the truth

-ve symptom, characterised by brief replies to questions and minimal elaboration

General lack energy resulting in loss goal directed beh

Identification of nature and causes of illness

Consisstency of diagnosis

Accuracy of diagnosis

Presence one or more additional disorders/diseases simultaneously occuring with schiz

Tendency over-diagnose members of other cultures as suffering with schiz

Tendency for diagnositic criteria to be applied differently to Ms and Fs and there to be differences in classification of disorder

Perception symptoms of schiz are also symptoms of other mental dsisorders

Transmission of abnormality by hereditary means