Jeremy And Schizophrenia Case Study

When I was younger, I knew a boy by the name of Jeremy (identity protected). He was born to a very young drug and alcohol addicted mother. He was adopted at a very young age, I believe around 4. His adopted parents were very loving and kind, this brought lots of new experiences to Jeremy’s world. While growing up Jeremy was always seen as an “odd ball” or an “outsider”. He had a flat affect, never showing much emotion to anything, or his new loving family. As he went through school there always seemed to be things arising surrounding his behavior and mannerisms. School workers worked closely with him and his parents to better his experiences. He never seemed to want to make friends, couldn’t complete his assignments, and never seemed to focus

This led to a further diagnoses of schizophrenia. Being such a young onset, this was hard for him and the family. He no longer understood the need for basic hygiene, such as bathing or even changing clothing. He would go days to weeks without any personal hygiene and/or changing clothing. His speech became very incoherent, at times mumbling things that made no sense to anyone. As a diagnoses for schizophrenia, there must be certain criteria met. Jeremy met many of the more common aspect and symptoms of schizophrenia. He experienced positive symptoms, which is a break with reality including hallucinations and delusional thinking. He became very paranoid, always speaking of people who were next door and sometimes in the same room as him, were speaking about him. He claims they were making negative statements towards him such as “You are worthless”. He also claimed these people were conspiring against him and would hurt him. He truly believed these hallucinations and would have delusions of seeing these people. These experiences are referred to as delusions of reference. Negative symptoms, which is absenses of behaviors, affected him by a big lack of emotional

Behavioral perspectives on schizophrenia are based off the environment and interactions and behaviors within these things. There are two major conditioning responses associated with this perspective, classical and operant. Although there have never been experiments, that I am aware of, on individuals with schizophrenia and the conditioning responses, it is thought to be this that makes and individual experience symptoms. A behavioralist would believe that the responses to hallucinations and delusions would be a direct result of something observed by this individual. For example, a child watching and learning the behaviors of his mother, would learn to react and behave in the same ways. The cognitive perspective on schizophrenia is based on mental functions and the processes of the mind. It is believed that early trauma and/or poor parenting helped to shape the way a person with schizophrenia views themselves. It is thought that one is misinterpreting ones own thoughts, creating a world that is different from