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Zajenkowski, Marcin; Styla, Rafal; Szymanik, Jakub – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
We compared the processing of natural language quantifiers in a group of patients with schizophrenia and a healthy control group. In both groups, the difficulty of the quantifiers was consistent with computational predictions, and patients with schizophrenia took more time to solve the problems. However, they were significantly less accurate only…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Schizophrenia, Language Impairments, Patients
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Hernandez, Rafael J. C.; Rime, W. Jeremy; Jimerson, Shane R. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2013
The purpose of this article is to provide school psychologists and other educational professionals with important information regarding the epidemiology, etiology, assessment, and treatment of early onset schizophrenia (EOS). The central aim herein is to bring science to practice by succinctly highlighting key considerations for school…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, School Psychology, Schizophrenia, Epidemiology
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Margrove, K. L.; Gustowska, M.; Grove, L. S. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
There is increasing concern over the number of university students and university staff who require psychological support; however, little is known about the impact of this on higher education (HE) staff. University employees (n = 91) from two UK universities completed an anonymous survey which explored their experience of providing support for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teacher Surveys, Emotional Disturbances
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Eack, Shaun M.; Newhill, Christina E.; Watson, Amy C. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2012
Social work students (N=60) in a master's-level course on severe mental illness participated in a quasi-experimental study examining the degree to which increased knowledge about and contact with individuals with schizophrenia during the course would impact their attitudes toward people with the disorder. Results revealed significant improvement…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mental Disorders, Schizophrenia, Social Work
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Eack, Shaun M. – Social Work, 2012
Schizophrenia is a mental health condition characterized by broad impairments in cognition that place profound limitations on functional recovery. Social work has an enduring legacy in pioneering the development of novel psychosocial interventions for people with schizophrenia, and in this article the author introduces cognitive remediation, the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Therapy, Counseling Techniques, Schizophrenia
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Singh, Ashvind N.; Matson, Johnny L.; Hill, B. D.; Pella, Russell D.; Cooper, Christopher L.; Adkins, Angela D. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Clozapine has been approved in the United States since 1990 for refractory or treatment resistant schizophrenia in the general population. However, as with many other antipsychotic medications, it is being prescribed for reasons other than those indicated. Among individuals with intellectual disabilities, clozapine is increasingly being prescribed…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Schizophrenia, Drug Use, Behavior Problems
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Russell-Smith, Suzanna N.; Maybery, Murray T.; Bayliss, Donna M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2010
Crespi and Badcock (2008) proposed that autism and psychosis represent two extremes on a cognitive spectrum with normality at its center. Their specific claim that autistic and positive schizophrenia traits contrastingly affect preference for local versus global processing was investigated by examining Embedded Figures Test performance in two…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Autism, Identification, Cognitive Processes
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Brown, Waln K. – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2011
Nearly half a century ago, a star-crossed adolescent found himself at an important crossroads. Just five months shy of his eighteenth birthday and newly released from an 18-month court commitment to the Pennsylvania George Junior Republic School for Boys (Brown, 1983), a congregate facility for court-adjudicated delinquents and foster youth, he…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Delinquency, Affective Behavior
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Tsai, Jack; Stroup, T. Scott; Rosenheck, Robert A. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
There has been no recent national description of where and with whom people with chronic mental illness reside. Using data from the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness, the living arrangements of 1,446 clients with schizophrenia from 57 sites throughout the United States were characterized over 1 year. At baseline, 46% of…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Mental Disorders, Adults, Housing
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Viglione, Donald J.; Perry, William; Giromini, Luciano; Meyer, Gregory J. – International Journal of Testing, 2011
We used multiple regression to calculate a new Ego Impairment Index (EII-3). The aim was to incorporate changes in the component variables and distribution of the number of responses as found in the new Rorschach Performance Assessment System, while sustaining the validity and reliability of previous EIIs. The EII-3 formula was derived from a…
Descriptors: Test Items, Self Concept, Validity, Evaluation
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Cole, David A.; Cai, Li; Martin, Nina C.; Findling, Robert L.; Youngstrom, Eric A.; Garber, Judy; Curry, John F.; Hyde, Janet S.; Essex, Marilyn J.; Compas, Bruce E.; Goodyer, Ian M.; Rohde, Paul; Stark, Kevin D.; Slattery, Marcia J.; Forehand, Rex – Psychological Assessment, 2011
Our goals in this article were to use item response theory (IRT) to assess the relation of depressive symptoms to the underlying dimension of depression and to demonstrate how IRT-based measurement strategies can yield more reliable data about depression severity than conventional symptom counts. Participants were 3,403 children and adolescents…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Measurement, Error of Measurement, Severity (of Disability)
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Nieto, Rebeca Garcia; Castellanos, F. Xavier – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2011
Despite the nosological distinction between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, there is increasing evidence that these conditions share phenomenological characteristics. To examine the similarities in their patterns of cognitive impairment, we conducted a meta-analysis from 12 studies of Early Onset Schizophrenia (EOS) and 12 studies of Pediatric…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Verbal Learning, Patients, Cognitive Processes
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Wouters, Saskia G. M.; Spek, Annelies A. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
The present study compared 21 high functioning individuals with autism, 21 individuals with schizophrenia and 21 healthy individuals in self-reported features of autism, as measured by the Autism-spectrum Quotient (AQ). The individuals with autism reported impairment on all AQ subscales, compared to the neurotypical group. The schizophrenia group…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Autism, Disability Identification, Adults
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Hella, Pertti; Niemi, Jussi; Hintikka, Jukka; Otsa, Lidia; Tirkkonen, Jani-Matti; Koponen, Hannu – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: Disorganized speech, manifested as derailment, tangentiality, incoherence and loss of goal, occurs commonly in schizophrenia. Studies of language processing have demonstrated that semantic activation in schizophrenia is often disordered and, moreover, the ability to use contextual cues is impaired. Aims: To reconstruct the origins and…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Schizophrenia, Speech Communication, Connected Discourse
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Collin, Lisa; Bindra, Jasmeet; Raju, Monika; Gillberg, Christopher; Minnis, Helen – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This review focuses on facial affect (emotion) recognition in children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders other than autism. A systematic search, using PRISMA guidelines, was conducted to identify original articles published prior to October 2011 pertaining to face recognition tasks in case-control studies. Used in the qualitative…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Nonverbal Communication, Schizophrenia
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