classification and diagnosis of schizophrenia

• Schizophrenia is a mental disorder which effects thoughts and emotions to a point where people lose contact with reality.
• •Most common psychotic disorder, affecting 1% of the population
• •Most commonly diagnosed between 15-35
• •It is highly genetic
• Symptoms help you to make a diagnosis
• Classification is Placing symptoms into categories based on which symptoms appear together in a disorder.
• Diagnosis is Determining whether someone has a particular mental illness based on the classification.
• Positive symptoms are Symptoms experienced in addition to normal functioning
• Negative symptoms are Atypical experiences that represent the loss of normal functioning
• Hallucinations are False perceptions that have no basis in/are distortions of reality
• Delusions are Irrational beliefs that have no basis in reality
• There are 2 major systems for classifying mental disorders, ICD-11 and the DSM-5
• the ICD-11 is used around most of the world and requires 2+ negative symptoms for a diagnosis
• the DSM-5 is used in the USA and requires 1+ positive symptom for a diagnosis
• Avolition is a lack of motivation