Overview
This assignment has two goals. First, to explain the signs, symptoms, and causes of schizophrenia in adolescents. Second to identify, describe, and assess evidence-based screening tools for schizophrenia in children or adolescents. Write a 3-page paper, answering the questions below, using the chapter I will upload, video, and any other references you think you will need. This paper needs to be in APA 7 format, ensure to answer all the questions and attach the screening tools identified.
- Explain the causes of schizophrenia in children and adolescents?
- Explain the signs and symptoms that children and adolescents might be experiencing schizophrenia?
- Describe the criteria for diagnosing schizophrenia in adolescents according to DSM-5. What cultural aspects would you have to take into account as you diagnose schizophrenia in children or adolescents?
- Identify, describe and assess two evidence-based screening tools for schizophrenia related symptoms ? Which of the screening tools would be most appropriate for your level of knowledge and skills and your desired practice setting? Develop a brief description of the tools (i.e. purpose, number of items, scale type, translations, cultural adaptations, reliability and validity of the measure). For assessing the tool, consider the following: age appropriateness, cultural appropriateness, tool adequately measures or assesses the symptoms manifested by the client, tool's ease of readability and understanding by a child or an adolescent.