2-3 page paper APA style
Describe how a TV, movie, comic or book character, of your choice, presents symptoms of schizophrenia, including behavioral descriptions of his positive, negative, and/or psychomotor symptoms as appropriate.
Review the ways theorists explain schizophrenia using psychological and sociocultural factors (not biological), and offer your conceptualization of the characters development of schizophrenia from these two perspectives.
Based on your conceptualization above, what treatment options would you recommend? (Be sure to include at least one journal article in support of your chosen treatment options.) What type(s) of treatment(s) did the character experience? Was the treatment effective? If so, is that common?
Resources Must come from:
- Comer, R. J., & Comer, J. S. (2019). Fundamentals of abnormal psychology (9th ed.). Worth.
Chapter 14, “Disorders Common Among Children and Adolescents”
Chapter 15, “Disorders of Aging and Cognition”
- And 2 other references of your choice
