psy_69
Psy 69Field Label
interviewer: circle appropriate pattern from descriptions below:
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1, Continuously Positive: The subject has predominantly positive symptoms when ill.during periods of remission, he/she may have mild negative symptoms or be relatively asymptomatic.
2, Predominantly Negative: The subject may have periods of mild psychosis with some delusions and hallucinations, but the predominant clinical features during most of his/her illness are negative symptoms.Thus, he/she is in chronic deficit state most of the time with occasional flickers of delusions, halluciantions or social disorganization
3, Predominantly Positive Converting to Predominantly Negative: The subject begins with a number of episodes characterized by positive symptoms, but these become more widely spaced, and the subject passes into deficit state in between.Eventually, he/she remains in a deficit state for a prolonged period of time (e.g. two or three years), during which he/she may have occasional mild flickerings of positive symptoms.
4, Negative Converting to Positive: The subject begins in a deficit state with a history of poor premorbid functioning.He/she then develops a florid psychotic picture that is relatively prominent and persistent and thereafter does not spend much time in the deficit state.It is likely that this pattern will be quite uncommon.Subjects who have an adolescent history of poor premorbid adjustment and who simply return to this level of functioning between episodes should be classified s Pattern 1 described above rather than as Pattern 4.
5, Continuous Mixture of Positive and Negative Symptoms: PAttern is one of the concurrent and continuous active psychosis and negative symptoms.