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Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders: Pgmi Abadilla Angela Marie
Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders: Pgmi Abadilla Angela Marie
SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM
AND OTHER PSYCHOTIC
DISORDERS
SCHIZOPHRENIA
“Schizophrenia” was first used in one of the most common
1910 by Swiss psychiatrist of the severe mental
Eugene Blueler. “splitting of the
mind.”
disorders
schizophrenia is one of the
Early physicians to distinguish
four main categories of mental top 25 leading causes of
illness: frenzy, mania, disability
melancholy, and fatuity
(foolishness).
19th century Emil Kraepelin
(1856–1926) dementia praecox
was characterized by early onset
of symptoms followed by a
progressive course culminating
in dementia
EPIDEMIOLOGY
ANTIPSYCHOTIC
PSYCHOSOCIAL THERAPIES
Social Skills Training
Family-Oriented Therapies
Case Management
Assertive Community Treatment
Group Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Individual Psychotherapy
Personal Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Vocational Therapy
Art Therapy
Cognitive Training
Schizophreniform disorder
By definition, patients
with schizophreniform
disorder have the
symptoms for at least
a month and return to
their baseline state
within 6 months
Better prognosis
TREATMENT FOR
SCHIZOPHRENIFORM
Recurrent episode –
give prophylaxis
Psychotic symptoms
can usually be treated
by 3-6 months of
antipsychotic drugs
Psychotherapy
Brief psychotic disorder
psychotic condition
that involves the
sudden onset of
psychotic symptoms
lasts 1 day or more but
less than 1 month
Brief psychotic
disorder is an acute
and transient psychotic
syndrome.
Schizoaffective disorder
Mood symptoms Better prognosis than
develop concurrently
Schizophrenia and
with symptoms of
worse than mood
schizophrenia, but
disorder
delusions or
hallucinations must be
present for 2 weeks in
the absence of
prominent mood
symptoms during some
phase of the illness.
TREATMENT FOR SCHIZOAFFECTIVE
DISORDER
Mood stabilizers are a Maintenance: dosage
mainstay of treatment can be reduced to a low
for bipolar disorders to middle range to
and schizoaffective avoid adverse effects
disorder and potential effects
carbamazepine was on organ systems
superior for
schizoaffective
disorder
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