PSY 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psych, Catatonia, Group Psychotherapy

• School: WWU, Western
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 351
• Professor: Stephanie Grimm

Document Summary

Schizophrenia and related disorders: presentation sign up tuesday. Brief psychotic disorder to schizophreniform to schizophrenia. Most are brief psychotic episodes observed or known. One or two episodes = brief psychotic disorder. Can still be diagnosed with schizophrenia without having been diagnosed with brief psychotic disorder or schizophreniform disorder. Ex: can tell psychologist that this have been happening for months, years etc: schizophrenia core domains. Positive symptoms (need at least one of the first three and at least one other. ) Visual and auditory can often go together, but auditory is the most common. Connections are so loose that it appears to be none. Ex: these trees are very green, these trees are my stomach. Echolalia- speech can also be repeating what heard. Disorganized or catatonic behavior-can include not grooming oneself, movements in circles/a lot of pacing. Ex: flappi(cid:374)g/ repetiti(cid:448)e (cid:373)otio(cid:374) that do(cid:374)"t see(cid:373) to ha(cid:448)e much meaning. Negative symptoms (ex: restricted affect (blank emotional expression.