Presenting Problem: Dylan is a 17 year old with previous psychiatric history of ADHD, cannabis use disorder, severe, major depressive disorder and history of suicidal thoughts with multiple inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations He currently resides with his father. He has a probation officer due to ongoing truancy issues and inability to stop smoking marijuana. He is under advisement due to passion of Marijuana until 03/17/17. He lacks structure and accountability while residing with his father.…
" 1). Contrary to popular belief schizophrenia is not caused by bad parenting or tragic events. The biggest contributor to the cause of schizophrenia is genetics.…
This paper seeks to establish a provisional diagnosis from presenting signs and symptoms and discuss the supporting pathophysiological implications of the prognosis, based on the following case study. Bill is a 62-year-old male who self-presented with a cardiovascular emergency at a small regional health centre. The information gathered in the primary and secondary surveys allows the formation of an evidence-based prehospital management plan including optimal pharmacological therapy and other interventions as well as additional resources required, destination hospital choice and consideration of further diagnostic tests. In Bill’s scenario he presented with discomfort in his chest and jaw.…
A 40-year-old male is brought to the clinic by his wife with the complaint of behavioral changes for the past few months. He is irritable and gets angry on trivial matters. Sometimes he screams in the middle of the night and remains restless. His wife has recently noticed that he is forgetting things and repeats the same question multiple times. For the past few weeks, he is also having abnormal movements of his body, more prominent in the arms and hands.…
Schizophrenia is a very serious dieses that causes a person to have a loss of contact with reality because of thought and emotion. Schizophrenia can cause people have delusions that have no touch reality and can have major consequences to the person. Researchers believe that schizophrenia is a brain disorder because a lot of things in the brain take place to cause it. The reading says that virtually all scientists believe that psychological factors cause schizophrenia. It also states that research has found biological clues to the causes of schizophrenia.…
Schizophrenia is an early-onset mental illness (van Dongen and Boomsma, 2013) Positive symptoms: “hallucinations, delusions, and racing thoughts” Negative symptoms: “poor social functioning, apathy, and lack of emotion” Cognitive symptoms: “disorganized thoughts, concentration problems, memory problems, and difficulty with completing tasks” Theory of mind is impaired in Schizophrenia (Brüne, 2001, 2005) “The cognitive capacity to represent one’s own and other persons’ mental states…in terms of thinking, believing, or pretending” There is an increased risk of committing suicide (Preti and Wilson, 2011) Brain circuitry that is involved with sociality, emotion, and theory of mind is impaired (Brüne et al, 2004)…
Grech, A., Van Os, J., Jones, P., Lewis, S., & Murray, R. (2005). Cannabis use and outcome of recent onset psychosis. European Psychiatry, 20(4), 349-353. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2004.09.013 Purpose: The purpose of this study is to test the theory that recent onset psychotic patients who use cannabis will have psychotic symptoms that are more severe and more persistent than those who do not use cannabis.…
Schizophrenia is a term used by psychiatrists to identify one of the many Psychological human mental disorders. The word “Schizophrenia” is less than a hundred and fifty years old and was first coined by Dr. Eugen Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist. Schizophrenia however, is believed to have been a mental disorder that's disgruntled the human race for as long as mankind has dwelled on the earth. Today, Schizophrenia affects one percent of the world population and although it does not seem like a larger number, it does afflict a large number of people and affects society as a whole. In the United States alone, approximately 3.2 million people suffer from this haunting disorder and according to the Schizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America,…
According to the book, Essentials of Abnormal Psychology (2014), schizophrenia is when people deteriorate into an isolated wilderness of unusual perceptions, odd thoughts, disturbed emotions, and motor abnormalities. Sufferers experience a lack of contact with reality, known as psychosis. Schizophrenia is diagnosed after symptoms of psychosis have lasted for six months or more, and there has been clear deterioration in the person’s self-care, social life, and work performance (Comer, 2014, p. 364). Also, according to a journal article (2016), “The mean cognitive underperformance during adolescence and at the onset of psychotic symptoms differentiates schizophrenia from the other major…
to diagnose a person with schizophrenia a psychological assessment must be done. The definitive diagnosis for schizophrenia relies on the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fifth edition (DSM-V). To be diagnosed with schizophrenia a person must have two or more of the following symptoms over six months: hallucination, delusion, disorganized speech, bizarre behavior, inattention, impaired memory, poor problem-solving, poor decision-making, illogical thinking, impaired judgement, blunted affect, alogia, avolition, anhedonia, dysphoria, suicidality, hopelessness. Schizophrenia will require hospitalization if patient is dangerous to himself or other. Hallucination and delusions lead to bizarre behaviors related to distortion…
Schizophrenia is a severe and chronic mental disorder that affects in what way a person thinks, feels, and acts. People with schizophrenia may appear like they have lost touch with reality. Granting schizophrenia is not as common as other mental disorders, the symptoms can be very disabling. Signs and symptoms of schizophrenia typically occur between ages 16 and 30. In sporadic cases, children have schizophrenia also.…
Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder in which it is hard to tell the difference between what is real and unreal, thinking clearly, having control over your emotions, relating to others, and being able to function as usual. This disorder affects how someone behaves, thinks, and sees the world around them. At times they will see and hear things that they think are there but they really are not there at all. They also believe that at times people around them are trying to harm them in some way or they also feel as if someone is watching them at all times during the day.…
A schizophrenic persons sense of feeling is therefore diminished. Schizophrenia is a long term mental illness that affects approx. one percent of all Americans. Schizophrenia can affect any one ant any age, but studies have shown that a majority of those who do suffer from this disorder are inter late teens and early twenties in men and late twenties and early thirties for women. Also, studies have found that it is uncommon for patients under the age of twelve or over forty to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.…
Before one can begin applying Schizophrenia in a real-world context, and how it affects both those that are victims of it and the people that interact with those diagnosed with the disorder, one must first be able to establish the characteristics of it. Although the cause of schizophrenia is not fully clear, there are a multitude of indicators that can help diagnose the individual. According to the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the main component of the disorder is the the issue of “psychosis,” which means a loss of touch with reality. The common symptoms also include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behavior, which lead to issues in self-care and general life functioning. However,…
My first encounter of learning about schizophrenia was during the course of my undergraduate, abnormal psychology class. By reading the relevant chapters in my textbook and listening to my professor give his lecture, the symptoms and criteria needed to constitute a diagnosis of schizophrenia seemed very straightforward and easy to interpret. For example, if a person had delusions and/or hallucinations and expressed either inappropriately low or high emotionality, then it was automatically thought to be schizophrenia. As I learned about the symptoms and diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia, as determined by the DSM IV-R, I instilled a stereotypical profile or image of patients with schizophrenia in my mind. This is because many or almost all…