Paranoid Schizophrenia Case Study

The True Life episode, I have Schizophrenia, documented the struggles of three adults who suffer from Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective disorder. This paper will focus around Josh and whether he actually has Schizophrenia.

Phoenix is a 28 year old woman who is currently a full-time student and unemployed. She is in a domestic partnership and she has a son, which is not legally her partner’s. She stays at home most days and waits for her son to come home from school and her partner to come home from her job. Phoenix constantly ponders thoughts of her partner’s fidelity to their partnership.

Valerie believes that the last four years of her marriage are what brought about her development of paranoid schizophrenia. During her last four years of marriage Valerie experienced a great deal of stress and strain to keep her marriage together. Because Valerie did not believe in divorce she turned to her religion and became deeply involved in her church. Her first delusion began during this period when she believed bad people were infiltrating her church and trying to destroy the

The whole reason for a therapeutic relationship is to facilitate a successful patient outcome. Each person is unique and has different needs.

Have you ever been in public or at someone’s house and you see an individual acting strangely or saying that there are people trying to harm them? There are a number of possibilities that could explain the individual's behavior such as, Schizophrenia. This research paper will inform you on what Schizophrenia is and who it affects, the different subtypes, and finally symptoms causes and treatments for Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is a severe, disabling and chronic disorder that affects people. Schizophrenia is diagnosed as a psychotic disorder. This is because a person suffering from schizophrenia cannot tell their own thoughts, perceptions, ideas, and imaginations from the reality. There is continuing debate and research as to whether schizophrenia is one condition or a combination of more than one syndrome that have related features. People suffering from schizophrenia may seem perfectly fine until the time they talk actually talk about they are thinking. People with schizophrenia rely on others for help since they cannot care for themselves of hold a job. There is no cure for schizophrenia, but there is treatment that relieves some of the symptoms. People having the disorder will cope with the symptoms all their lives. There have been cases of people suffering from schizophrenia leading meaningful and rewarding lives. There are five types of schizophrenia namely paranoid, disorganized, residual, undifferentiated, and catatonic schizophrenia. This paper will discuss paranoid schizophrenia.

As previously mentioned, it is thought that engagement and understanding are key elements involved in creating and maintaining a therapeutic relationship (Orlinskey et al 1994). Throughout the risk assessment I checked the patients

Paranoid-type schizophrenia is characterized by delusions and auditory hallucinations (hearing voices that don 't exist) but relatively normal intellectual functioning and expression of emotions. The delusions can often be about being persecuted by a person or an organization, or feeling harassed or treated unfairly. People with paranoid-type schizophrenia can exhibit anger, aloofness, anxiety, and can be argumentative. (DSM-IV-TR)

Therapy for psychosis often works best when combined with medication, although this is not always

I. (MAIN POINT 1) There are two categories of symptoms of Schizophrenia, positive and negative.

On the basis of symptoms experienced by schizophrenic people there are 5 subtypes of schizophrenia namely: Paranoid, Catatonic, Disorganized, Undifferentiated and Residual (Barlow and Durand, 2002). These subtypes can vary during course of illness. Paranoid schizophrenia is specified by illogical feelings and positive symptoms. People with this type experience delusion and hallucination. These people have better prognosis than other types. Disorganized schizophrenia also named as hebephrenic schizophrenia. It is characterized by disturbance of speech and behavior. People with disorganized schizophrenia show flat effect. Sign of this one are difficult to recognize at early stage so they become chronic and result in lacking of remission. Catatonic

There are four kinds of schizophrenia, including paranoid schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia, and undifferentiated schizophrenia. Causes are not clear, and biological, psychological and environment factors are being investigated. It is certain that there is a genetic component. (Passer and Smith, 2004)

Paranoid Schizophrenia is a subtype of Schizophrenia. Paranoid schizophrenia is the most common schizophrenia type. A person with this type of disorder is relatively stable, often paranoid, delusions, usually accompanied by hallucinations, auditory variety and perceptual disturbances. Disturbances of affect, volition, and speech, and catatonic symptoms, are not prominent. Schizophrenia is a very serious disorder in a lot of people. Studies show as many as 51 million people worldwide suffer from schizophrenia including 6-12 million in China. Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe neurological brain disorder estimated in 2014 to affect 1.1% of the population or approx 2.6 million adults in the United States aged 18 or older. (Rashmi, 2009). It is a lot of individuals that go untreated and in years to come more people will suffer with Schizophrenia.

Case 3 A woman has believed that her neighbors were harassing her by allowing their young children to make loud noise outside her apartment door without any cause. She stopped speaking to them and began a campaign of continuously hostile behavior. She did it by giving them dirty looks and behaving rudely toward their visitors rather than asking the neighbors about that. When the neighbors finally confronted her about her hateful behavior after sometime from when her behavior was started, she blamed them of intentionally harassing her.

The five classifications of schizophrenia are, paranoid schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia, childhood schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. As specified by Bengston (2016), the defining characteristic of paranoid schizophrenia is the existence of hallucinations and delusional thoughts. Schizophrenia is most commonly associated with symptoms described as this is the most prevailing subtype of the disorder. This form of the disorder shows late onset with many functioning well and living relatively normal lives. The next variation of schizophrenia is disorganized schizophrenia, the dominant characteristic of this subtype is, as the name suggests, is disorganization or derangement of the thought processes.