Lauren Otto
Student Number: 49208934
PYC4802
Assignment 3
Unique Assignment number: 668049
17 June 2015

Plagiarism Declaration 1. I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is using another’s work and pretending that it is one’s own work. 2. I have used the American Psychological Association (APA) as the convention for citation and referencing. Each significant contribution to, and quotation in, this assignment from the work, or works of other people has been attributed and has been cited and referenced. 3. This assignment is my own work. 4. I have not allowed, and will not allow, anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work. 5. I acknowledge that copying someone else’s assignment, or part of it, is wrong, and declare that this assignment is my own work.

NAME: Lauren Otto

DATE: 17/06/2015

MODULE CODE: PYC4802

ASSIGNMENT: Assignment 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE: LIVING POSITIVELY WITH A SCHIZOPHRENIA DIAGNOSIS PAGE
1 INTRODUCTION 4
2 DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA 5
3 POSITIVE SYMPTOMS 5 3.1 Delusions 5 3.2 Hallucinations 6 3.3 Disorganised Speech 6 3.4 Grossly disorganised or catatonic behaviour 6

3 NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS 7 4.5 Flat affect 7 4.6 Avolition 7 4.7 Alogia 7

4 AETIOLOGY 8 5 SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND SELF HARM 13 6 COMORBIDITY 15 7 EFFECTIVE TREATMENT AND ACCESS TO TREATMENT 15 8 CONCLUSION 16
REFERENCES

1. INTRODUCTION

Burke (2012) defines Schizophrenia as “a severe psychotic illness characterised by an array of diverse symptoms including extreme oddities in perception, thinking, action, sense of self and the manner in which the self relates to others.” The term “Schizophrenia” or