Assignment task:
Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders Describe the key features of other psychotic disorders. Explain the characteristics of schizophrenia. Define delusions. Describe grandeur, control, reference, persecution, self-blame, somatic, infidelity, thought broadcasting, and thought insertion delusions. What is the difference between hallucinations and delusions? What do we mean by disorganized speech? Define inappropriate affect. What do we mean by positive and negative symptoms? Describe the most important positive and negative symptoms. Define restricted affect, avolition, and asociality. What is catatonia? Identify the theories of the causes of schizophrenia. What is the primary biological treatment of schizophrenia? (you don't have to know the names of the medications) Describe the psychological treatments of schizophrenia. What are the side effects of antipsychotic medications? Define brief psychotic disorder. Describe schizophreniform disorder. Describe schizoaffective disorder. What is a delusional disorder? Describe the erotomanic type of delusional disorder.