Adversity And Schizophrenia

The interviewee is asked to identify a “target” trauma, or index trauma, to link the symptoms with, however it can also be utilized to assess symptoms of any interviewee identified trauma (V. This version of the CPSS-I-5 assesses symptoms occurring only in the past month (Foa & Chapaldi, 2012). The CPSS-I-5 differs from the CPSS-SR (or Child PTSD Symptom Scale-Self Report) in that the CPSS-I-5 is completed in an interview format where the interviewer reads the questions out loud to the client versus the CPSS-SR where the client fills it out independently. The assessment yields a total symptom severity score ranging from 0-80, and a total severity-of-impairment score ranging from 0-28 across 7 domains (Foa et. al., 2001). On both CPSS-I and CPSS-SR, receiving a score of 0-10 results in a below threshold score of PTSD symptoms, 11-15 results in a subclinical-mild score of PTSD symptoms, 16-20 results in a mild score of PTSD symptoms, 21-25 results in a moderate score of PTSD symptoms, 26-30 results in a moderately severe score of PTSD symptoms, 31-40 results in a severe score of PTSD symptoms and 41-51 results in a score of extremely severe symptoms (Foa et. al., 2001). Both the CPSS-I and CPSS-SR have displayed good to excellent reliability and validity (Gillihan et al., 2013). One-week test-rest reliability was assessed for CPSS-SR and received a reliability score of r=.86. CPSS-I scores was also excellent (r = .87) (Gillihan, Et. Al., 2013). Both the CPSS-SR and the CPSS-I demonstrated symptom based diagnostic agreement of 85.5% (Gillihan, Et. Al.,

Terr, L. C. (1991). Childhood traumas: an outline and overview. Am J Psychiatry, 1, 48.

As indicated by Krishnadas, et al (2014) individual with different genetic issues and family issues are more likely to develop schizophrenia in early age. It is seen that a child with criticised development and unstable environment usually develop the symptoms of schizophrenia at their early development stage. In addition, there are many incidents that occur in the life of an individual from their early development period further contribute an upper hand in its development for instance, a child with an abusive past is more likely to develop chronic schizophrenia that would directly affect the development of individual’s personality and would lead them to different issues consciously or unconsciously (Matheson, et al.

This shows the relationship between traumatic events, psychotic disorders, and the existence of PTSD in those clients (Putts, 2014, p.83). The percentage of sexual and or physical abuse among clients with more than 10 hospitalization and 11 psychotic episodes are even greater. According to Putts (2014), 40% of those clients suffered sexual abuse and 60% suffered physical assault by a relative (p.83). Putts expressed his concern with the clinicians’ lack of recognition of the relationship between trauma and psychotic disorders, and how this contributes to the lack of diagnosis of PTSD in this population (Putts, 2014, p.83).

Although schizophrenia may come off as an interesting and unique disorder, it also relates to the Emotional, Social, and Intellectual dimensions of Health and Wellness. Schizophrenia is an disorder that affects a person’s ability to think, feel and behave clearly. The emotional dimension of the wellness wheel is described as the ability to understand ourselves and cope with the challenges life can bring. Also, the ability to acknowledge and share feelings of fear, sadness or stress; hope, love, joy and happiness in a productive manner contributes to our emotional wellness. This connects to schizophrenia because when you have this disorder it perceives you to imagine situations that aren’t actually happening. Usually people diagnosed with this

Based on the case study provided Susan has qualifies as a youth that has had a traumatic experience on all three levels of focus in a trauma-informed assessment. Susan has been exposed to events that are traumatic. These are, for example, she has been for a long time been sexually abused by her father and her father frequently physically abused her mother over trivial issues and she even witnessed her parents fighting to the extent that her mother was hospitalized due to a head injury inflicted by her father. In addition, Susan displays symptoms that are linked to post traumatic stress disorder. These include the continuous engagement in daily physical altercations, sleeping difficulties, development of depression, drug experimentation, and aggressive behavior

Because of the complexity of the disease, many myths surround schizophrenia. One of these myths is poor parenting causes schizophrenia. Sigmund Freud and psychiatrists since him have regarded the family as the key in the

The measures that the authors of the article used to study consisted of the abbreviated 16-item version of the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire (TLEQ) used to screen each of the individual’s trauma history. For each question, the answers were marked by a yes or no and any

A number of factors have been linked to schizophrenia:genetics, psychological vulnerability, and poor environmental surroundings. The understanding the of this mental illness is called

Over the past decade, investigators worldwide have been utilizing the “clinical high risk (CHR)” paradigm to identify adolescents and young adults at increased imminent risk for developing psychosis. Increased recognition of the CHR and early psychosis period has further led to the consideration of the attenuated psychosis syndrome specification under the Other Specified Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorder section in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5th edition (DSM-5). Researchers have previously defined childhood trauma as any emotional neglect, or psychological, physical, emotional or sexual abuse occurring before the age of 17 years old (Bernstein et al., 2003; Kraan et al., 2015). While a wealth of data has demonstrated indirect associations between childhood trauma (CT) and psychosis in adulthood (cite reviews), prospective longitudinal studies of individuals with the CHR syndrome provide a unique opportunity to examine potential risk factors, resilience factors and underlying mechanisms that may link psychosis and CT. This population provides a critical window into the development of psychosis prior to the concomitant effects of chronic exposure to antipsychotic medications, substance use, isolation and social impoverishment that can accompany psychotic disorders, as well as the trauma often experienced from psychotic episodes themselves, trauma related to involuntary hospitalizations, and higher rates of victimization and

The key concept of this literature review is to better understand how childhood trauma is associated with mental health, such as post-traumatic stress disorder

In an academic journal wrote by Abigail Powers, Negar Fani, Dorthie Cross, Kerry J. Ressler, and Bekh Bradley, there is a focus on a study to "determine specific associations between exposure to childhood abuse, PTSD symptoms, and current psychotic disorder" (Powers et al., 2016). This group of researchers and doctors measured PTSD by a scale called Clinicain Administered PTSD, measured psychotic disorders by using the MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview, measured child abuse with the Childhood Trauma Questionaire, and also measured lifetime trauma exposure with the Traumatic Events Inventory (Powers et al., 2016). According to the academic journal wrote by Powers' research team, the CTQ is a 25-item, self-report

This exploratory study specifically aimed to find out the the developmental experience between Indian adolescent daughters of institutionalised and non-institutionalised schizophrenic mothers. The developmental experience explained using Robert Havighurst’s Developmental Task theory. In particular, this study explored the challenges, promoting factors and coping strategies involve in the developmental experience of the adolescent daughters’. The participants of the study consisted of twenty adolescent girls between the age range of twelve and nineteen, whose mothers having schizophrenia. The researcher collected data residing different districts of Kerala during the period of five months. Data were gathered from various sources such as interview of the participants and their family members, schools, Girls homes, rehabilitation

I am a big man, in late 30’s, and I have 2 teenagers, a son, and a girl. They are the same age as I was when I saw my cousin Andrew being taken to a mental institution. The thing that happened to him was really sad, and our peers are still talking about it. Everything started when we were 13 years old. I saw Andrew in the school yard, and as usually I headed to him to ask him did he do his homework. But he seemed kind of sad, confused, tired. I asked him if he was ok, he said no. “Well, what is happening? Are you sick?” “No, just tired, I haven’t slept in days. I cannot sleep, cannot eat.” “Why?” “Because of the noise, it’s driving me mad, how do you deal with it?” “What noise?” “The noise in my head? How do you mean –what noise- I thought everybody hears it”? I decided to call his parents. I didn’t saw him for few days and then, one day, he showed up to school again. He said he is fine now and he didn’t want to talk about it anymore. Days passed by and I wasn’t thinking about that anymore, I was at that age when girls were my priority thing to think about. Until one day… I saw my cousin running through the school hall and screaming “Don’t touch me please, just don’t touch me”. I wanted to run after him but my friends stopped me and they said: “No, don’t you know he is ill?” My cousin ill? What happened to him? How didn 't I know that? I asked my friends how do they know and they said that they overheard the conversation between

Throughout psychology today there are six different theoretical models that seek to explain and treat abnormal functioning or behavior. These different models have been a result of different ideas and beliefs over the course of history. As psychology began to grow so did the improvements in research techniques. As a result psychologists are able to explain a variety of disorders in terms of the six different theoretical models. In the movie A Beautiful Mind it follows the mathematician John Nash as he struggles with schizophrenia. It an attempt to explain John Nash’s disorder the six different theoretical models will be looked at, they include biological model, psychodynamic model, behavioral model, cognitive model, humanistic model,