Schizophrenia: Aetiology, Pathophysiology, Assessments, Treatment, and Nurse Interventions

Schizophrenia

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
Aetiology and pathophysiology..............................................................................................1
Assessments, treatment and nurse interventions....................................................................2
Impact schizophrenia..............................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4

Introduction
Mental health refers to appropriate ability of an individual to feel, think and respond properly
Schizophrenia refers to a mental disorder in which a person is not able to think, feel and behave
properly. It includes the fact that combination of genetics, environment and altered brain
structure is known to be a cause behind occurrence of schizophrenia. However, it involves the
situation of an individual when they cannot think and behave clearly (Searles, 2018). In context
of this assignment, it is based on the mental health disorder of schizophrenia that may occur
among people. This essay will focus on pathophysiology of selected mental disorder and its
assessment, treatment as well as nursing interventions. It will also include impact of
schizophrenia on individual, family and community.
Main Body
Aetiology and pathophysiology
The aetiology includes evaluating cause of specific health problems to provide appropriate
treatment. Schizophrenia can be defined as a condition in which an individual interpret real
aspects in abnormal way. It includes the psychological state of having combination of
hallucinations, delusions and extremely disorder thinking as well as behaviours.
The pathophysiology includes symptoms, causes and diagnosis to analyse functional
abnormalities in human body which are explained below. However, the schizophrenia has
number of symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations and disorganised thinking which develop
in problem of daily living of an individual. It consist several other signs including extremely
disorganised or abnormal motor behaviour, negative symptoms, withdrawal from friends &
family, drop in performance at school, trouble in sleeping, irritability or depressed mood and
lack of motivation. The pathology of schizophrenia includes use of physical exam, brain
screenings and psychiatric evaluation to analyse actual cause of it to treat the same effectively.
The aetiology includes cause of specific health issue like schizophrenia which are mentioned
here. The causes of schizophrenia include the combination of genetics and brain chemistry which
are responsible for developing this psychological disorder. It includes the major contribution of
environmental factors that create schizophrenia. However, it includes the condition when natural
brain chemicals including neurotransmitters known as dopamine and glutamate that has potential
to contribute for occurrence of schizophrenia. It involves the cause when brain chemicals get
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