Classification of schizophrenia. Positive symptoms of schizophrenia include hallucinations and delusions. Negative symptoms of schizophrenia include speech poverty and avolition.

Reliability and validity in diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia, including reference to co-morbidity, culture and gender bias and symptom overlap

Biological explanations for schizophrenia: genetics and neural correlates, including the dopamine hypothesis

Psychological explanations for schizophrenia: family dysfunction and cognitive explanations, including dysfunctional thought processing

Cognitive explanations of schizophrenia, including dysfunctional thought processing.

Drug therapy: typical and atypical antipsychotics

The importance of an interactionist approach in explaining and treating schizophrenia; the diathesis-stress model.