SCHIZOPHRENIA
المؤلف:
PAUL MALORET
المصدر:
Caring for People with Learning Disabilities
الجزء والصفحة:
P77-C5
2025-10-11
162
SCHIZOPHRENIA
Pilgrim (2005) describes schizophrenia as a disorder of thinking, perception, mood and behavior in which the individual loses touch with reality and often experiences impaired function in a range of areas. Classically, people suffering from schizophrenia will experience one or more of the following symptoms:
• Thought disturbance – belief that thoughts and feelings are being taken from their control and others are able to insert new thoughts into their minds.
• Hallucinations – seeing, hearing and smelling objects that are not really there. Sometimes, voices maybe heard that urge them to perform certain acts.
• Delusions – false belief about objects and events, such as delusions of grandeur, which describes a person who falsely believes that s/he is royal.
Prevalence of schizophrenia in people with learning disabilities has been reported to be as high as 3 per cent (Deb et al. 2001). This is far higher than that of the general, it may appear that this is possibly an under-representation of the actual number of cases. It could be suggested that the cause of schizophrenia lies with an inherited gene, whilst others would dis agree and propose that the condition is a product of environmental stress factors, such as abuse and social isolation. Zubin and Spring (1997) suggest that the cause is more likely to be a combination of these factors, i.e. that a biological element exists alongside social and stress factors. An example of this is a person who may have social problems such as being unemployed and/or have financial concerns, or may be suffering from stress caused by bereavement or a life-changing event. Therefore, if an inherited gene existed and that person was subjected to the mentioned stress and social factors, then she or he would be predisposed to developing a mental illness alongside the existing learning disability.
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