scholarly journals The Association of Minor Physical Anomalies with Clinical and Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-223
Author(s):  
Adnan Kusman ◽  
Büşra Yalçınkaya ◽  
Yağmur Kır ◽  
Umut Mert Aksoy ◽  
Betul Nur Özdemir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Minor Physical Anomalies ◽  
Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms

Early Diagnosis and Counseling in Adolescents With Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-68
Author(s):  
Veronika Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Clinical Psychologist ◽  
Psychotic Episode ◽  
Clinical Approach ◽  
First Psychotic Episode ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Techniques ◽  
Sexual Identification ◽  
Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms

Psychosis is a condition characterized on current diagnostic tests by impairment and may include severe disturbances of cognition, thinking, behaviour, and emotion. The need for early diagnosis and prevention of psychotic episodes in adolescents challenges traditional models of counselling, diagnosis, and treatment. The aim of the present study is to derive the main themes and psychological manifestations in the first psychotic episode in adolescents and to deepen knowledge and raise questions around the specific experiences of psychotic adolescents in order to help the clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in diagnostic and therapeutic counselling. This thus goes beyond the visible behaviour and the medical model that pays little attention to the causal relationships in psychosis and its unconscious components. Thirty-six adolescents (27 girls) with subclinical and clinical psychotic symptoms and 30 adolescents (16 girls) with neurotic symptoms were interviewed. A clinical approach was used – clinical psychological interview followed by psychotherapeutic work. Findings and statements can be found showing that early psychotic signs may change into a more severe adolescent crisis, as well as indications of the nature of anger towards parents, unstable mood and aggressivity. Leading themes in interviews and psychotherapeutic sessions may relate to feelings of insignificance in the world around them, unclear sexual identification, too close a relationship with their mothers, and anxiety about real or symbolic absence such as their mothers’ working away from home for long periods of time. In 79% of the interviews with adolescents with psychotic symptoms, we see a lack of real symbolic play in childhood. suitable for non-psychotic adolescents, in this case to change in the first psychotic episode.****What does this last sentence mean? The importance of early diagnosis is recognized and the known psychotherapeutic techniques must be used. Keywords: early psychosis, adolescent, positive psychotherapy, counselling

Disturbances of basic self and prodromal symptoms among non-psychotic help-seeking adolescents

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 1365-1376 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Koren ◽  
N. Reznik ◽  
M. Adres ◽  
R. Scheyer ◽  
A. Apter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Risk Markers ◽  
Prodromal Symptoms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Prodromal Syndrome ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms

BackgroundThe goal of this study was to explore the notion that anomalies of self-experience (ASE) are a core, ‘not-yet-psychotic’ clinical phenotype of emerging schizophrenia and its spectrum.MethodTo accomplish this goal, we examined the relationship between ASE and commonly accepted risk markers in a sample of 87 help-seeking, non-psychotic adolescents (aged 14–18 years). ASE were assessed with the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE), subclinical psychotic symptoms were assessed with the Prodromal Questionnaire and the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes, deterioration in psychosocial functioning was assessed with the Social and Role Functioning Scales, and level of distress with the Mood and Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire.ResultsAbout 82 participants completed the entire EASE interview. The number of participants who reported ASE at a clinically meaningful level (n = 18, 22%) was smaller than that who met diagnostic criteria for a prodromal syndrome (n = 28, 34%). The degree of overlap between the two conditions was moderate but statistically significant (χ2(1) = 7.01, p = 0.008). An exploratory factor analysis revealed that ASE load on a different factor than prodromal symptoms and deterioration in functioning, but that there is a moderate correlation between the three factors.ConclusionsThese results suggest that ASE are prevalent among non-psychotic help-seeking adolescents, yet at a considerably lower rate than prodromal symptoms. In addition, they suggest that ASE and prodromal symptoms constitute distinct but moderately related dimensions of potential risk. Taken together, they provide preliminary support for the clinical usefulness of supplementing and refining the methods of early detection of risk with assessment of ASE.

Association between white matter fiber integrity and subclinical psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia patients and unaffected relatives

2012 ◽  
Vol 140 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 129-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Knöchel ◽  
Laurence O'Dwyer ◽  
Gilberto Alves ◽  
Britta Reinke ◽  
Jörg Magerkurth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
White Matter ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms

Association between processing speed and subclinical psychotic symptoms in the general population: Focusing on sex differences

2015 ◽  
Vol 166 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 316-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wulf Rössler ◽  
Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross ◽  
Mario Müller ◽  
Stephanie Rodgers ◽  
Wolfram Kawohl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
General Population ◽  
Processing Speed ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms

scholarly journals Concurrent and Sustained Cumulative Effects of Adolescent Marijuana Use on Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms

2016 ◽  
Vol 173 (8) ◽  
pp. 781-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Bechtold ◽  
Alison Hipwell ◽  
David A. Lewis ◽  
Rolf Loeber ◽  
Dustin Pardini
Keyword(s):  
Marijuana Use ◽  
Cumulative Effects ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Adolescent Marijuana Use ◽  
Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms

Language, motor and speed of processing deficits in adolescents with subclinical psychotic symptoms

2010 ◽  
Vol 123 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu M. Blanchard ◽  
Sarah Jacobson ◽  
Mary C. Clarke ◽  
Dearbhla Connor ◽  
Ian Kelleher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Speed Of Processing ◽  
Processing Deficits ◽  
Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms
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