A Level Psychology Schizophrenia Notes

11 pages of detailed notes covering the whole of the schizophrenia topic (aimed at AQA)

Includes the following:

Classification of schizophrenia. Positive symptoms of schizophrenia, including hallucinations
and delusions. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia, including speech poverty and avolition. Reliability and validity in diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia, including reference to co-morbidity, culture and gender bias and symptom overlap.

Biological explanations for schizophrenia: genetics and neural correlates, including the
dopamine hypothesis.

Psychological explanations for schizophrenia: family dysfunction and cognitive explanations, including dysfunctional thought processing.

Drug therapy: typical and atypical antipsychotics.

Cognitive behaviour therapy and family therapy as used in the treatment of schizophrenia.

Token economies as used in the management of schizophrenia.

The importance of an interactionist approach in explaining and treating schizophrenia; the
diathesis-stress model.

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