PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Asociality, Avolition, Psychological Testing
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Really what is the acute of the symptoms, this is the prodromal stage. Attend to the stage where there is odd beliefs, hyper religious belief, lack of social skills and certain early. How people will talk to him and he takes a long time to respond. Prodromal stage of initiative symptoms, then acute phase of illness, characterized of illusions, hallucinations. They seek medical condition; individuals don"t get help in early stage of the illness. Chronic disability, they will be disabling throughout their whole lives. Those who don"t stay on their meds and don"t have social support. Higher in canada, than other parts of the world because immigration. We attend to believe there is a triggering to response due to environment. Typically some sort of stressor tied to acute symptoms. He went to university, huge transition that is overwhelming and participated the event in some way. Huge transition (moving to canada) difficult so people start to develop schizophrenia.
