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Psychotic Episodes & Reality
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Psychotic Episodes & Reality

Methods of Regaining Sanity
Created byDr. J Psychology
Last updated 8/2022
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand how psychosis differs from other psychological disorders.
  • Identify the symptoms of someone who has experienced a break with reality
  • Grasp the differences between and among psychotic experiences
  • Learn about the best therapies for helping someone regain sanity.

Course content

2 sections • 14 lectures • 1h 9m total length

  • Introduction2:45

    Explore the five DSM classifications of schizophrenia and how psychosis disrupts reality, self-care, and social relations, with recovery, hope, and acceptance and commitment therapy.

  • What You will learn about Schizophrenia3:05

    Explore psychotic disorders and schizophrenia, detailing positive and negative symptoms, language disruption, and movement abnormalities. Review DSM-5 classifications and treatments, from drug therapy to progress in acceptance and commitment therapy.

  • Case Examples of Schizophrenia9:32

    Examine real case examples of schizophrenia, from Sue's voices and delusions to John Nash's coping through acceptance and commitment therapy and productive living.

  • Defining Psychotic Symptoms9:50

    Define psychosis and schizophrenia through delusions and hallucinations, and outline diagnosis, treatment options, and positive, negative, and motor symptoms across prodromal, active, and residual phases.

  • Causes of Psychotic Problems6:29

    this lecture covers DSM-5 schizophrenia subtypes—paranoid, undifferentiated, residual, catatonic—and patterns like flat or inappropriate affect and psychomotor symptoms, plus diathesis-stress, dopamine and serotonin roles, and changes in temporal-frontal lobes.

  • Environmental Stress and Psychosis5:26

    Environmental stress and high expressed emotion in families boost relapse after the first psychotic episode, while labeling and self-fulfilling prophecy affect self-view, underscoring family-based therapy to foster independence.

  • Best therapy for psychotic episodes5:26

    Begin with psychotropic drugs to block dopamine and reduce psychotic symptoms; first-generation antipsychotics yield about 65% improvement but risk tardive dyskinesia, while second-generation yield about 85% with fewer side effects.

  • Other therapies for Psychosis9:40

    Stabilize psychosis with antipsychotic medication and support independence through humane care, group homes, behavioral rewards, case management, and community housing to help adults lead more normal lives.

  • Conclusion and Review Exercises1:17

    Review the exercises to understand distinctions between type 1 and type 2 symptoms and how to apply the right help for the person with schizophrenia and their family and friends.

Requirements

  • An interest in learning about psychotic disorders and the latest psychotherapies for treatment

Description

Learn about what happens when people lose touch with reality and how to best treat these psychotic problems. Understand the five different patterns of schizophrenia and the best ways to help clients recover from the condition. These five patterns are: paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, residual and the undifferentiated.

Paranoid types are preoccupied with false beliefs and sensory hallucinations (hearing voices that are in one's mind). They allow themselves to be guided by such ideas. Sometimes, they act on their false beliefs.

Disorganized schizophrenics are confused, incoherent when speaking, show inappropriate emotions or no emotions whatsoever and also demonstrate odd behavior. They are often socially withdrawn from others.

Catatonic types have problems with their motor behavior. They can shift from being frozen in place to extremely excited and agitated in their physical movements. Peculiar movements and grimacing are typically observed. They sometimes mimic the speech and motions of other people.

Residual schizophrenia refers to the absence of prominent symptoms. Such psychotic clients are apathetic and report strange perceptions of reality. In addition, they seem isolated from others and have impaired role functions.

The Undifferentiated types show thought and emotional problems. They are quite odd and may have had a history of psychotic breaks. Each breakdown might entail combinations of the symptoms listed above.

Develop an understanding of the multiple causes of the condition and the developmental patterns shown by age, social class, race and gender. Appreciate the psychotherapies that lead to the best possible outcomes. Put schizophrenia and psychotic breaks into perspective. 

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone with an interest in abnormal psychology and the best therapies for treating psychotic symptoms.

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