Paper 3 - Complete Student Workbook - Schizophrenia

Written by leading authors Nick and Bethan Redshaw specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and builds on their highly successful year 1 material which is also available to download here on TES (Teacher reference - I have bought your Year 1 e-workbook, which I found to be amazing! )

Option 2 Schizophrenia - Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be familiar with the following:

Week 15 -The Classification of Schizophrenia
1. The Classification of schizophrenia.
2. Positive symptoms of schizophrenia, including hallucinations and delusions.
3. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia, including speech poverty and avolition.
4. Reliability and validity in diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia, including reference to co-morbidity, culture and gender bias and symptom overlap.

Week 16 - Biological explanations for Schizophrenia
1. The Biological explanations for schizophrenia
2. Genetics
3. The dopamine hypothesis
4. Neural correlates

Week 17 - Psychological explanations for Schizophrenia
1. Psychological explanations for schizophrenia
2. Family dysfunction
3. Cognitive explanations, including dysfunctional thought processing

Week 18 - Therapies for Schizophrenia
1. Drug therapy: typical and atypical antipsychotics
2. Cognitive behaviour therapy as used in the treatment of schizophrenia
3. Family therapy as used in the treatment of schizophrenia
4. Token economies as used in the management of schizophrenia
5. The importance of an interactionist approach in explaining and treating
schizophrenia; the diathesis-stress model.

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