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What is Psychosis? Manchester Mental Health Social Care Trust Aims Objectives To provide an introduction to psychosis and associated signs and symptoms. To develop an awareness of how the signs of psychosis can be identified. For participants to be aware of vulnerable groups To provide a baseline of knowledge concerning psychosis from which to develop. Terms We Use … As a large group let us consider what terms are used to describe someone who has a mental illness….. Cast your minds back… Think back to being at school or youth club. Try to recall someone who you thought might have been experiencing some difficulties in the way they related to you or others.Consider their behaviour , what was it that made you think they were a bit ‘odd’. In a small group share some of these thoughts. The Stigma of Mental Health Health Stigma can be the largest obstacle for those who experience mental health problems 60% of young people admit to verbally abusing people with mental health problems ( Mind 2000) In a survey of young people 38% were unable to name a mental illness (Corrado Carluccio 2001). 66% of all media coverage associated mental illness with violence (Philo Secker 1994) The Historical Background Kraepelin 1893 – Developed groups of symptoms into catatonia, paranoia, hebephrenic and simple. He also noted that they did not all have a chronic progression. Bleuler 1911- Developed the term schizophrenia as a ‘splitting of psychic function’. Schneider 1959 –Identified first second rank symptoms to assist in the development of a diagnosis. Langfeldt 1961 – Made a distinction between true schizophrenia and schizophrenic states. What is Psychosis? The word ‘psychosis’ is used to describe conditions that affect the mind, where there has been some loss of contact with reality When someone becomes ‘ill’ in this way it is called a ‘psychotic episode’ It is most likely to occur in young people - around 3 in every 100 young people