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Schizophrenia, cold, dominant and can cause conflict within family…
Schizophrenia
Symptoms
Negative symptoms (people withdraw from the world around them) e.g. Speech poverty, lack of emotions, avolution and lack of ability to function properly
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Emotional symptoms e.g. avolition, lack of emotion, lack of hygiene and innappropriate emotions
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Social Symptoms e.g. social withdrawal, aloofness and eye contact avoidness
Behavioural symptoms e.g. repeating strange / odd behaviours, and lack / loss of control
Positive symptoms (change in behaviour / thoughts) e.g. Hallucinations, Delusions, word salad and disorganised behaviour
Biological Explainations
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Biological Therapy
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Typical antipsychotics - Developed in the 1950s, typical antipsychotics only treat positive symptoms and only act upon the dopamine receptors.
Atypical antipsychotics - Introduced in the 1970s, they treat both positive and negative side effects and can act upon both dopamine and seratonin receptors.
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cold, dominant and can cause conflict within family situations, eventually leading to development of Schizophrenia
Environments in which contain high levels of hostility and criticism towards the sufferer. Can result in a relapse regarding Schizophrenia
Bateson 1956 suggested faulty communication between families that could lead to conflict in messages and eventually Schizophrenia
Evidence comes from family studies. States that the more genetically similar relatives are, the more concordance is found
Evidence for genetic explainations of schizophrenia strong suggest that genetics play a significant factor of causes.
Gottesmann 1991 studies 40 twins and found that the concordance rate for Monozygotic twins are around 48% whereas, it is only 17% for Dyzygotic twins.
Kety et al 1988, found that 14% of biological relatives of adoptees with Schizophrenia were classified as Schizophrenic. Whereas, only 2.7% of adoptive relatives were found to be Schizophrenic.
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States that Schizophrenia is cased by dysfunctional thought processing. Nuefield 1978 found that Schizophrenic patients took longer to encode stimuli and showed short term memory problems
However, biochemical research says that cognitive problems are caused by an increase in dopamine
Successful in large numbers of patients - means that people can live in communities rather than being iscolated in institutions
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Only treats symptoms of Schizophrenia, meaning that is does not personally help the patient - This can be seen as an ethical issue!!
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Helps with both positive and negative symptoms of Schizophrenia, some patients even continue the treatement after!
Can be time consuming! Patients can become heavily dependant on their therapist!! It is hard to measure effectiveness of cognitive behaviour therapy because it relies on self report.
Has been found to have reduce re admission rates. It is also useful in patients who lack insight into their own condition!
Informed consent from all family members is often difficult. Furthermore the famility needs to be engaged with the therapy and willing to change their behaviour.