Diagnostic criteria and codes - schizophrenia spectrum and other related disorders

11 important questions on Diagnostic criteria and codes - schizophrenia spectrum and other related disorders

What are the domains in schizophrenia spectrum and related disorders?

  1. schizotypal (personality) disorder
  2. delusion disorder
  3. brief psychotic disorder
  4. schizophreniform disorder
  5. schizophrenia
  6. schizoaffective disorder
  7. substance-medication/induced disorder
  8. psychotic disorder due to another medical condition
  9. catatonia
  10. catatonia due to another medical condition
  11. unspecified catatonia
  12. other specified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorder
  13. unspecified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorder

What is criteria B for brief psychotic disorder?

disturbance > 1 day, < 1 month.
Individual has a full return to the premorbid level of functioning

Specifiers for brief psychotic disorder?

Specify :
  • With marked stressors (brief reactive psychosis)
  • Without marked stressors.
  • With peripartum onset ( during pregnancy or within 4 weeks postpartum)

Specify if: With catatonia
Specify current severity according to quantitative assessment of symptoms of Schizophrenia
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Specifiers for schizophreniform disorder?

Specify if:
  • With good prognostic features (At least two of the following features: onset of prominent psychotic symptoms within 4 weeks of the first noticeable change in usual behavior or functioning; confusion or perplexity; good premorbid social and occupational functioning; and absence of blunted or flat affect.)
  • Without good prognostic features

Specify if: With catatonia

Specify current severity according to quantitative assessment of symptoms of Schizophrenia

What is criteria C for substance/medication induced psychotic disorder?

if symptoms persist long (eg 1 month) after acute withdrawal or severe intoxication, could be better explained by independent psychotic disorder

Specifiers for substance/medication induced psychotic disorder?

Specify if onset during intoxication, or onset during withdrawal

Specify current severity according to quantitative assessment of symptoms of Schizophrenia

What is criteria A for psychotic disorder due to another medical condition?

Prominent hallucination OR delusions.

Specifiers for psychotic disorder due to another medical condition?

Specify whether:
  • With delusions
  • With hallucinations

Specify current severity according to quantitative assessment of symptoms of Schizophrenia

What is criteria A for catatonia?

Three or more of the following 12 symptoms
  1. Stupor – no psychomotor activity
  2. Catalepsy – posture held against gravity
  3. Waxy flexibility – resistance to positioning by examiner
  4. mutism
  5. Negativism- no response to instructions or external stimuli
  6. Posturing – spontaneous and active maintenance of a posture
  7. Mannerism- odd, circumstantial caricature of normal actions
  8. Stereotypy- repetitive, abnormally frequent, non-goal directed movements
  9. Agitation- non influenced by external stimuli
  10. Grimacing
  11. Echolalia – mimicking speech
  12. Echopraxia- mimicking movements 

What is unspecified catatonia?

Either the nature of the underlying mental disorder or other medical condition is unclear, full criteria for catatonia are not met, or there is insufficient information to make a more specific diagnosis (e.g., in emergency room settings).

What is unspecified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders?

reasen why criteria are not met is not given

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