Schizophrenia

CASE FORMATION – GROUP PRESENTATIONS. Group presentations of 2 students. Part A:  Instructions to role play. Students to address all sub-topics of schizophrenia

Main Topic: Schizophrenia. One student will be a patient (mention and display symptoms), while the other student will be the clinician to treat the patient and will speak on the rest of the subtopics. Role play will address the sub-topics: Definition, Symptoms, Cause, Risks, pharmacology, and non-pharmacology treatments. Please get all details on your topic.

Part B: Use the above role play to create 13-14 slides PowerPoints with 4 references.

Schizophrenia is defined by significant impairments in the way reality is perceived, as well as behavioral changes associated with:

Persistent delusions: the individual has ingrained beliefs that something is true despite contrary evidence;
Persistent hallucinations: the individual may hear, smell, see, touch, or feel objects that are not physically present;
Influence, control, or passivity experiences: the perception that one’s emotions, impulses, actions, or thoughts are not generated by oneself, are implanted or removed from one’s mind by others, or that one’s thoughts are broadcast to others;
disorganized thought, frequently manifested in jumbled or irrelevant speech;
Highly disorganized behavior, e.g., the individual does things that appear bizarre or pointless, or the individual exhibits unpredictable or inappropriate emotional responses that impair their ability to organize their behavior; “negative symptoms,” such as extremely limited speech, restricted experience and expression of emotions, inability to experience interest or pleasure, and social withdrawal; and/or extreme agitation or slowing of movement, maintenance of unusual posturology.
Individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia frequently also struggle with persistent difficulties with cognitive or thinking abilities such as memory, attention, and problem solving.

At least one-third of people diagnosed with schizophrenia experience complete symptom remission (1). Certain individuals with schizophrenia experience periodic worsening and remission of symptoms throughout their lives, while others experience a gradual worsening of symptoms over time.