schizo

• family dysfunction:

  Reichman 1948 proposed a psychodynamic explanation for schzio based on accounts she heard from her patients about their childhood.

  • she noted that many of her patients spoke of a particular type of parents which she called schziorenogenic mother which used cold and harsh parenting.
• dysfunction of family strength:

  evidence links family dysfunction to schzio

  • indicators of family dysfunction includes insecure attachment and exposure to childhood trauma.
  • according to Read et al 2005 adults with schzio are dispoportionally likely to have insecure attachment- type C or D
  • 69% of women and 59% of men either suffered from physical/ or sexual abuse.
• Intro AO1:


  Classifying: identifying a cluster of symptoms that occur together and classifying this as one disorder

  Diagnosis: identifying symptoms and deciding what disorder a person has.

  Classification:

  DSM-5: American use

  one of the positive symptoms must be present for diagnosis

  ICD-10: Uk use

  two or more negative symptoms must be present for diagnosis