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Schizophrenia - -last for six months and includes at least one month of active-phase symptoms, e.g. delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, affective flattening, alogia and avolition; typcially onsets in late teens to early 30'...
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Schizophrenia - ✔✔-last for six months and includes at least one month of active-phase symptoms, e.g.
delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, affective flattening, alogia and avolition; typcially onsets
in late teens to early 30's
Paranoid schizophrenia - ✔✔-preoccupation with one or more delusions and/or frequent auditory
hallucinations within the context of relatively intact cognition and affect. Usually the delusions are
organized around a coherent theme ; delusions are usually delusions of persecution or of grandeur.
Disorganized schizophrenia - ✔✔-fragmentary delusions, not organized into a theme. Speech and
behavior may also be disorganized. Affect may be inappropriate or flat
Catatonic schizophrenia - ✔✔-symptoms include at least two of the following: motoric immobility,
excessive motor activity, extreme negativism, mutism, echolalia, echopraxia
Undifferentiated schizophrenia - ✔✔-the symptoms do not meet the criteria for a specific subtype
Residual schizophrenia - ✔✔-person is not currently exhibiting delusions, hallucinations or other positive
symptoms. The person has had these symptoms in the past and continues to display negative symptoms
(affective flattening, alogia and avolition) and/or attenuated positive symptoms
alogia - ✔✔-Poverty of thinking as manifested by restricted speech consisting mostly of short, concrete,
repetitive, and sterotyped replies lacking in spontaneity or information
avolition - ✔✔-loss of willingness or ability to pursue goals
Schizophreniform Disorder - ✔✔-the criteria are identical to schizophrenia EXCEPT that the disturbance
is present for at least one month but less than six months; impaired social and occupational functioning
is not required to make this diagnosis, although they may be present
, Schizoaffective Disorder - ✔✔-an uninterrupted period of disturbance in which there are concurrent
symptoms of a mood disorder and the psychotic, active-phase symptoms of schizophrenia and during
which hallucinations or delusions are present without a mood disturbance for at least 2 weeks
Delusional disorder - ✔✔-the presence of one or more nonbizzare delusions that last at least one month
Brief psychotic disorder - ✔✔-delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or grossly catatonic
behavior that is present for at least one day but less than one month (with an eventual return to full
functioning)
Depersonalization disorder - ✔✔-one or more episodes of depersonalization (a feeling of detachment or
estrangement from oneself).
Dissociative amnesia - ✔✔-one or more episodes of an inability to recall important personal information
that cannot be attributed to ordinary forgetfulness.
Dissociative Fugue - ✔✔-abrupt, unexpected travel away from home or work with an inability to recall
some or all of one's past
Dissociative Identify Disorder - ✔✔-the existence in one individual of two or more distinct identities or
personality states; each has its own pattern of perceiving, relating and thinking about the environment
and self
Adjustment disorder - ✔✔-maladaptive reaction to one or more identifiable psychosocial stressors;
must onset within three months of stressor; must be evidence of impairments in social, occupational, or
academic functioning
Major Depressive Episode - ✔✔-Depressed mood and/or loss of interest or enjoyment in customary
activities that represents a change from previous functioning and that persists at least 2 weeks.
5 Symptoms of Major Depressive Episode - ✔✔-1. Depressed mood most of the day nearly everyday. 2.
Diminished interest or pleasure in almost all activities 3. Feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt.
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