PSY 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Schizophreniform Disorder, Postpartum Psychosis, Schizoaffective Disorder
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Sex, race, ethnicity, and development of schizophrenia: gender- women develop schizophrenia at a later age and tend to have milder forms, hormonal and sociocultural implications, developmental factors, symptoms are common across racial groups. African americans are more likely to be diagnosed than white and latino patients: early onset schizophrenia, estrogen could be a protective factor. Ethics and responsibility: racial bias is a real factor in diagnosing schizophrenia, determining diagnosis based solely on a person"s symptoms without knowing race. Lack of clinician"s cultural competence language barriers. Types of schizophrenia: type 1: dominated by positive symptoms, type 2: dominated by negative symptoms. * andrea yates drowned her ve children in a bath tub- postpartum psychosis. Psychological theories of etiology: psychodynamic- regression to pre-ego stage and efforts to reestablish ego control, behavioral- reinforcement- attend to irrelevant cues in environment, respond bizarrely, rewarded with attention, cognitive- rational path to madness.
