PSYCH 133B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Delusional Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder
3 May 2016
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Chapter 13: schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. billion loss in us: onset typically occurs during adolescence or early adulthood: 15-35, three phrases of variable/unpredictable duration, prodomal phase: obvious deterioration in role functioning as a student, employee, or homemaker. Talking to oneself, unusual perceptual experiences, outbursts of anger, increased tension, restlessness, social withdrawal, lack of willpower: active phase: hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, residual phase: dramatic symptoms of psychosis has improved. But negative symptoms: impoverished expression of emotions. Symptoms: positive symptoms, characterized by the presence of an aberrant response, hallucinations, sensory experiences that are not caused by actual external stimuli, most often auditory. Hearing voices that comment on their behavior or give them instructions. Can be frightening or comforting/pleasing: strike the person as being real, in spite of the fact that they have no basis in reality, delusional beliefs a.
