Archive Watch

Diagnosis of Childhood Schizophrenia (1974)

1974 · Short film · 35 min

Synopsis

Traces the step - by - step procedure of screening clinical data in order to establish the diagnosis of childhood schizophrenia. Includes a therapeutic sequence and demonstrates the clinical approach to the child. Shows why many commonly used algorithms confuse elementary students. Outlines more meaningful division algorithms based upon multiplication and subtraction.

Uploader's description on archive.org

Details

Running time
35 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Educational Films, Ephemeral Films

Subjects on the Internet Archive

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★ · Term No Longer Allowed · JayKay49 · 2021-02-09

Today we call childhood onset schizophrenia "autism." The word "autism" casts a totally different affectual response. And today - PC is way more important than facts. Schizophrenics are not lovable people. Never were considered as such. It was determined 70 years ago that some severe schizophrenics are born fully schizophrenic and manifest schizophrenia even in infancy. It looks a lot like autism, but autism (especially in its very broadened definition of late) does not (in its true form) show heriitability like schizophrenia does. But oddly enough, "autism" is now shown to run in families.…

More like this