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Mental Health Nursing · Chapter 8

The Spectrum Ladder: Domains, Duration and Cause

Psychosis is described in domains, and the spectrum is sorted almost entirely by duration, by the relationship to mood, and by cause. First sort sixteen observed findings into the domain they belong to and see which domains actually decide a person’s future. Then set the clock, the mood picture and the cause on a live ladder and watch the diagnosis resolve — and read what one changed detail would make it instead.