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.