77). Moreover, while some people may have these symptoms intermittently, a person with schizophrenia will exhibit these symptoms over a long duration of time. Identifying the disorder depends upon viewing these symptoms over the course of half a year and seeing them actively exhibited for at least an entire month over that duration. A person who only exhibits these signs for a few days and then they disappear for months on end before reappearing may not have this disorder and should be evaluated for another.
Types of treatment that are available to help a person who suffers from schizophrenia include: therapy and pharmacological interventions. Usually, schizophrenia patients are prescribed a combination of counseling therapy and drug intervention to help produce a stabilizing effect on the mind. Pharmaceutical treatments include antipsychotic mood stabilizers: these are called neuroleptics and may be used to help stifle mental disturbances. Therapy is another treatment that can be used to help the patient to direct impulses more appropriately. Therapies include the use of support group therapy, psychosocial therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and so on. Leucht, Cipriani, Spineli et al. (2013)…
Schizophrenia Psychosis and Lifespan D Schizophrenia and Psychosis and Lifespan Development Schizophrenia and Psychosis Matrix Disorder Major DSM-IV-TR Categories Classifications Subclassifications Schizophrenia and Psychosis Symptoms Positive (Type I): represent excesses or distortions from normal functioning Delusions Bizarre Nonbizarre Hallucinations Auditory Visual Disorganized Speech Loose Association Neologisms Clang Associations Echolalia/Echopraxia Word Salad Grossly disorganized behavior Catatonic: motoric Waxy Flexibility Negative (Type II): the absence of functioning Apathy Affective Flattening Withdrawal Anhedonia Avolition Poor Concentration Poverty of speech Alogia Schizophrenia and Psychosis Diagnostic Types Paranoid Delusions and Hallucinations Disorganized Disorganized speech Disorganized behavior Withdrawal Affective flattening Catatonic Grossly disorganized behavior Disorganized speech Catatonic Echolalia/Echopraxia Undifferentiated Active symptoms that do not fit other diagnostic types Residual No Type I symptoms but some negative symptoms Schizoaffective
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