PSYC 3140 Final: PSYC 3140 - Final Exam Notes (Fall 2011)

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Axis i (clinical syndromes): diagnosis in infancy, childhood, or adolescence / delirium, dementia, amnestic, and other cognitive, substance-related, schizophrenia and other psychotic, mood, anxiety, somatoform, factitious, dissociative, sexual and gender identity, eating, sleep, unclassified impulse control, adjustment. Axis ii (personality disorders): paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive. Axis iv (psychosocial and environmental problems): life-related and social problems. Axis v (global assessment of functioning scale - gaf scale): 0 to 100 scale of assessment. Schizophrenia is a complex condition characterized by heterogeneity. The disorder was misinterpreted as split personality disorder. Positive symptoms (type i) refer to exaggerated, distorted adaptations of normal behavior such as psychosis, delusions, hallucinations, thought and speech disorder. Negative symptoms refer to absence or loss of typical behaviors and experiences such as sparse speech and langauge, social withdrawal, avolition (apathy / loss of motivation), and anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure, emotion, attention, and concentration). (type ii)