PSY 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Schizophreniform Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder, Mood Disorder
2 May 2017
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Avolition is an inability to initiate or persist at common goal directed activities including those at work school and home. Person is slowed down in their movements and seem unmotivated. May sit around all day doing nothing. Asociability should only be diagnosed when individual has access to welcoming. Lack of desire to interact with other people family and friends but shows no interest in socializing with them: cognitive deficits. Show deficits in memory, attention and processing speed. Deficits in working memory: in order to be diagnosed, a person must show two or more symptoms of psychosis, at least one of which should be delusions, hallucinations or disorganized speech. These symptoms must be consistently and acutely present for at least one moth. Experience psychotic symptoms- positive and negative and prominent mood symptoms of depressive or manic tendencies. Mood symptoms must e present for the majority of the period of illness.
