Description
Your textbook readings this week focus on one of the most fascinating categories of psychological disorders: schizophrenia. While straight-forward in many ways, this diagnosis is markedly influenced by multicultural factors and plagued with diagnostic problems. In your post this week, using the textbook readings as a platform but doing your own library research as needed, discuss some of the multicultural components relevant to this condition and some of the diagnostic issues also at play.
Your post must be a minimum of 400 words long and must meet all other forum requirements as listed below.
class: psychopathology
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: SCHIZOPHRENIA DISORDER
Schizophrenia Disorder
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SCHIZOPHRENIA DISORDER
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A psychological disorder otherwise known as mental disorder refers to a pattern of
psychological and/or behavioral symptoms which affects several areas of life and in most cases
cause distress to the individuals who experience these signs and symptoms. These symptoms
basically cause disturbances to the persons cognitive, behavior or emotion regulations which in
turn affects the individuals biological, psychological and other developmental processes thus
affecting his/her mental functioning in the long run. There are numerous types of these mental
disorders with experts hinting that they could be over one hundred and fifty in number although a
number of these disorders share common symptoms, doctors can place them into various
categories by taking a number of factors into consideration (Patel et al., 2014). This paper will
focus on one of the most prevalent mental disorders; schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia could be simply defined as a chronic and severe psychological disorder
characterized ...