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Struggling with A-Level Psychology essays? These A*-standard schizophrenia essay plans will help you structure your answers perfectly and secure top marks. Each plan is clear, concise, and packed with evaluation points, key studies, and critical analysis to impress examiners. Designed for maximum efficiency, these plans follow AQA mark schemes, ensuring you hit all assessment objectives. Plus, they are aesthetically laid out with neat formatting to make revision more engaging and effective.

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R d V of Classicaon
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• level of agreement on diagnosed by different psychiatrist across time and culture
• DSM - APA - 2 or more ch symptoms
• ICD -10 - WHO - 1 first rank , 2 nd
• only thought echo - diagnosis using ICD nto DSM

S : CHENIAUX
• two psychiatrist independently diagnosed 100 patients using DSM or ICD
• 1 made 44 diagnoses other 13 w/ ICD
S: CONSEQUENCES
• false neg - not receive nes treatment - sch gets worse w/ time



Co- morbidity
• two or more conditions together in the same patient at the same time
• Confusion over which disorder
• May also suffer from depression or PTSD
• schizophrenia actually suffer distinct disorder



S: BUCKLEY
• meta analysis
• Patients with schizophrenia diagnosis also had depression, PTSD and OCD
• Professionals may not be good at telling difference between schizophrenia and other disorders
• E.g: severe depression may look like schizophrenia




S: ROSENHAN
• eat healthy individuals were told to fake auditory hallucinations: 'empty , hollow thud'
• Seven diagnosis, schizophrenia, one diagnosed bipolar
• psychiatrist not rel diag - diff conditions same symptoms , not valid - real or pseudopatient
W: MANUALS IMPROVING
• categories and definitions more details and operationalised
• ICD + DSM very similar
• 97% of reliability
• Many people valid and reliable diagnosis
• Eff treatments + recover normal level of functioning

, Bio Explaons
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GENETIC:
• DNA + Mutations
• Strong pos correlation between gen similarity of family + likelihood of developing
• GOTTESMAN: more gen similarity to sch greater chance:
• MZ = 48%. DZ = 17%



COMT GENE
• near doubled risk of sch
• Abnormal exp -> depletes frontal lobe of dopamine
• explain psychosis - pos symptom




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W: CONC NOT 100%
• psych infl
• Gen f alone cannot prove compl expl
• Share same environment MZ

S: TIENARI
• 155 given for adoption
• 10 times more likely

W: TIENARI
• maj adopted home 'abnormal'


W: INTERACTIONIST
• N + N - diathesis stress

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