Abnormal Psychology

Craig LaRotonda/Revelation Art I n 1930, female quadruplets were born in a small Mid- western city. All four survived, which at ...

520 CHAPTER 12 Nora, Iris, Myra, and Hester Genain were identical quadruplets. All four suffered from schizophrenia, although th ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 521 These symptoms are distinguished by their extreme quality. From time to time, we ...

522 CHAPTER 12 The man who made this drawing said, “This belt buckle symbolized safety for me in my stay in the hospital. I felt ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 523 words. For example, a patient might say something like “Pots dog small is tabled ...

524 CHAPTER 12 Alogia: Poverty of Speech People with schizophrenia who have alogia, or poverty of speech, may respond slowly or ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 525 2004). Executive functions are required to organize, interpret, and transform in ...

526 CHAPTER 12 Cognitive defi cits can also lead to unusual, although not necessarily disorga- nized, social behavior. As we’ll ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 527 grandiose theme. An example of a paranoid theme is that the person believes that ...

528 CHAPTER 12 Undifferentiated Schizophrenia When someone’s symptoms lead to the diagnosis of schizophrenia but do not complete ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 529 or substance-related disorder, and the psychotic symptoms only arise during a mo ...

530 CHAPTER 12 Schizophreniform and Brief Psychotic Disorders In some cases, an individual’s symptoms may meet most, but not all ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 531 Shared psychotic disorder The psychotic disorder in which an individual develops ...

532 CHAPTER 12 part of a psychotic disorder. The person who had the disorder at the outset is referred to as the primary person ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 533 12.2 • Differential Diagnosis Decision Tree for Psychotic Disorders Note: NOS st ...

534 CHAPTER 12 100,000 individuals) are homeless, 5% are in hospitals, and 6% are in jail or prison (Torrey, 2001). Together, th ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 535 nicotine dependence is that the cigarette use is a form of self-medication, beca ...

536 CHAPTER 12 Prodromal phase The phase that precedes the onset of a psychological disorder (such as schizophrenia) when sympto ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 537 psychotic symptoms, one of which was her complaint that the bones in her neck we ...

538 CHAPTER 12 possible reasons for this fi nding in the Understanding Schizophrenia section on social factors. Table 12.5 provi ...