Classification of schizophrenia: |
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia: including hallucinations and delusions |
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Negative symptoms of schizophrenia, including speech poverty and avolition. |
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Reliability and validity in diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia, including reference to co-morbidity, culture and gender bias and symptom overlap. |
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Biological explanations for schizophrenia |
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genetics |
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neural correlates, including the dopamine hypothesis. |
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Psychological explanations for schizophrenia |
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family dysfunction |
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cognitive explanations, including dysfunctional thought processing. |
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Drug therapy |
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Typical |
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Atypical - antipsychotics |
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Cognitive behaviour therapy and family therapy as used in the treatment of schizophrenia. |
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Token economies as used in the management of schizophrenia. |
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The importance of an interactionist approach in explaining and treating schizophrenia; the diathesis-stress model. |
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