Tuesday 21 June 2011

Specification notes

Schizophrenia

  • Clinical Characteristics of Schizophrenia (Psychological causes) OR Symptoms (Biological causes)
  • Issues surrounding the classification and diagnosis of schizophrenia, including reliability and validity
  • Biological explanations of schizophrenia, for example, genetics, biochemistry 
  • Psychological explanations of schizophrenia, for example, behavioural, cognitive, psychodynamic and socio-cultural
  • Biological therapies for schizophrenia including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness
  • Psychological therapies for schizophrenia, for example, behavioural, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness 

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