PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Anxiety Disorder, Thought Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
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Clinical symptoms: disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, flat or inappropriate affect, bizarre disturbances in motor activity. Phases of schizophrenia: the typical course of a psychotic episode can be thought of as having 3 phases, prodrome phase, acute phrase, recovery phase, psychotic episodes rarely occur out of the blue. Almost always, they are preceded by gradual non-specific changes in the person"s thoughts, perceptions, behaviours, and functioning. Recovery phase: within a few weeks or months of starting treatment, most people begin to recover, many of the symptoms get less intense or disappear, and people are generally better able to cope with daily life. Diagnosing schizophrenia: no one essential symptom must be present, people with schizophrenia can differ from each other more than people with other disorders differ. It is clear that there is much heterogeneity (diversity) at both the research and conceptual levels. Dsm-5 diagnostic criteria (*don"t need to memorize: a.
