Psychopathology B — Schizophrenia, Personality, Substance Use & Cognitive

What it covers

• Schizophrenia from the premorbid years to the residual phase
• Positive and negative symptoms, and which half the drug actually fixes
• The whole psychotic family on one clock: brief, schizophreniform, schizophrenia
• Nursing the patient who is hallucinating, deluded or paranoid
• The three personality clusters and all ten disorders, with the nursing each one needs
• Splitting, self-harm and the limits that hold a ward together
• Tolerance, withdrawal and the substance classes side by side
• The alcohol withdrawal clock, from tremor to delirium tremens
• Delirium, the dementias beyond Alzheimer's, and the four A's
• Autism, ADHD, conduct disorder and the impulse-control disorders
• Abuse and violence: the cycle, the warning signs, and what a nurse must report
• The Philippine layer: what is really being used, what is really being drunk, and the words families use instead of a diagnosis