{"id":1137,"date":"2025-10-28T01:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ciealevels.excellingpsychology.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:42:55","slug":"quick-lesson-1-diagnostic-criteria-icd-11-of-schizophrenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciealevels.excellingpsychology.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/quick-lesson-1-diagnostic-criteria-icd-11-of-schizophrenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Lesson # 1 – Diagnostic Criteria (ICD-11) of Schizophrenia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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AO1 (Description)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Duration<\/strong><\/td>Symptoms must last for at least one month.<\/td><\/tr>
Positive<\/strong> Symptoms<\/strong><\/td>Added experiences, like hearing voices or having strange beliefs e.g. hallucinations and delusions.<\/td><\/tr>
Negative<\/strong> Symptoms<\/strong><\/td>A loss of normal functions, like reduced motivation or emotion e.g. avolition and asociality.<\/td><\/tr>
Hallucinations<\/strong><\/td>Hearing, seeing, or sensing things that aren’t real (e.g., hearing critical voices).<\/td><\/tr>
Delusions<\/strong><\/td>Fixed false beliefs (e.g., grandiosity – “I’m a king”, or persecution – “I’m being spied on”).<\/td><\/tr>
Avolition<\/strong><\/td>A severe lack of motivation or drive to do anything.<\/td><\/tr>
Asociality<\/strong><\/td>A severe lack of interest in being with other people.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

AO3 (Evaluation)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Individual and Situational Explanations<\/strong><\/td>Point:<\/strong>\u00a0A strength is its clear individual focus.
Evidence:<\/strong>\u00a0It diagnoses based on personal symptoms like avolition.
Explanation:<\/strong>\u00a0Directly lends to individual treatments like medication.
Link:<\/strong>\u00a0This improves\u00a0application to everyday life.
Counterpoint:\u00a0<\/strong>However, it ignores critical situational factors like higher rates in urban poverty<\/td><\/tr>
Idiographic vs Nomothetic<\/strong><\/td>Point:<\/strong> A strength is its standardised nomothetic approach.
Evidence:<\/strong> It uses set symptom checklists for all patients.
Explanation:<\/strong> This ensures consistent and fair assessment.
Link:<\/strong> High reliability.
Counterpoint<\/strong>: However, it overlooks the patient’s unique experience of symptoms e.g. delusion types not specified on the ICD-11.<\/td><\/tr>
Generalisations<\/strong><\/td>Point:<\/strong> A weakness is poor cross-cultural generalisability.
Evidence:<\/strong> e.g. Hearing voices may be a symptom or a spiritual experience.
Explanation:<\/strong> This can lead to misdiagnosis in different cultures.
Link:<\/strong> This reduces validity.
Counterpoint:<\/strong> However, the ICD-11 does recommend considering cultural context.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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AO1 and AO3 covered for quick revision, without any compromise on details, for the first A2 clinical psychology topic, “Diagnostic Criteria (ICD-11) of Schizophrenia”. Prepare for paper 3 and paper 4 using this content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30,10,25,9,34],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a2-clinical-psychology","tag-10-markers","tag-issues-and-debates","tag-paper-3","tag-schizophrenia","tag-strengths-and-weaknesses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciealevels.excellingpsychology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciealevels.excellingpsychology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciealevels.excellingpsychology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciealevels.excellingpsychology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciealevels.excellingpsychology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/ciealevels.excellingpsychology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/ciealevels.excellingpsychology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciealevels.excellingpsychology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciealevels.excellingpsychology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciealevels.excellingpsychology.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}