ISSN: 2578-5095
Authors: Saunders V*
Aim: To demonstrate that evidence of psychosocial privation as cause has already been available for decades through previously published data. To supplement published evidence with additional original data that ensures comprehensive and precise explanation of cause. Methods: Triangulation was used. Firstly, evidence was provided through analyzing government epidemiological schizophrenia rates for the UK and Canada. Published data from case studies was re-interpreted, in tandem with original data from community relationships as an example of normalcy. Such data was then compared with a precise recently published list of all human psychosocial need. Finally, original evidence from an analysis of further community based case studies was provided. Results: It was shown that cause is complex and multifactorial as set out in a figure. This has contributed to previous researchers not being able to determine cause with certainty. Through re-interpreting case studies data through contemporary information about human psychosocial needs, it was revealed that sufferers are not able to form appropriate schemas due to abnormal parental behaviours that prevent psychosocial environment comprehension and rule formation leading to conflict, confusion, and inability to mentally organize information. This also explains increased rates in migrants; it is due to different norms (schemas) between societies of origin and destination causing conflict and confusion. Conclusion: Parents have mental health problems leading to the intergenerational transmission of abnormal familial culture through learned deviant behaviour. Any such psychosocial privation is a form of child abuse. The role of the extended family can potentially be preventative. Schizophrenia is a psychosocial privation problem accounted for mostly through social science paradigms. Clinical Implications: Understanding cause has important ramifications for prevention and improving treatment.
Keywords: Child abuse; Cognitive psychology; Epidemiology rates; Psychosocial privation; Psychosocial need; Schemas; Schizophrenia; Sociology
