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Category - Simple Schizophrenia - appears during late adolescence.
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Psychology Assignment 1) Mental Illness - SCHIZOPHRENIA Category - Simple Schizophrenia - appears during late adolescence. Symptoms include increasing apathy, decline in academic or work performance and gradual social withdrawal. The sufferer may be regarded by others as idle, or a drifter. Diagnosis depends on establishing the gradual progression and worsening of these symptoms. Hallucinations and delusions are not usually manifest. I choose this mental illness because I want to become a children's nurse and I thought it would be a good idea to know about the mental aspect of children's illness. 2) Schizophrenia itself comes under DSM-IV but the sub-category simple schizophrenia comes under ICD-10; because it does not prescribe what exactly should be in the diagnosis; people with simple schizophrenia may manifest a variety of symptoms. These may vary from one individual to another. (There are no set symptoms for diagnosis). 3) Cognitive Theory - is about how we perceive and process information...
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