Schizophrenia key words

Question	Answer
Cognitive behaviour therapy	Modifies thought patterns to alter behavioural and emotional states
Rational emotional behaviour therapy	Teaches schizophrenics that irrational thoughts and emotions are part of the illness that they must live with
Clozapine	Atypical drug, 2nd generation, effects positive and negative symptoms
Chloropromazine	Conventional drug, 1st generation, dopamine antagonist
Meta-cognition	Cognitive monitoring of one's own thought processes - includes ability to detect errors
Family therapy	Treatment of schizophrenia by alteration of communication systems within families
Token economies	Reinforces target behaviour by awarding tokens that can be exchanged for material goods
DIathesis-stress model	People have varying genetic potentials for schizophrenia which combines with the degree of environmental stressors in their lives to form their actual amount of vulnerability of the disorder

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	Created by Mollie Summer about 8 years ago