You are here : health.am > Mental Health Center > Schizophrenia Schizophrenia Schizophrenia Social Skills Training • Schizophrenia • • Schizophrenia Treatment and Outcome • May 11 09 Patients with schizophrenia often have very poor interpersonal skills. Making appropriate eye contact, controlling the volume of their voice, and participating in a conversation can all be difficult for them. The goal of… Schizophrenia Family Therapy • Schizophrenia • • Schizophrenia Treatment and Outcome • May 11 09 Dealing with a family member with a serious mental illness can be difficult. In order to make the transition from hospital to home as smooth as possible, many schizophrenia patients attend therapy with their… Schizophrenia Preventing Relapse • Schizophrenia • • Schizophrenia Treatment and Outcome • May 11 09 People with schizophrenia are encouraged to follow some basic advice in order to manage their illness and avoid relapse. Some therapists suggest that patients keep records of their daily behavior so that they might… Schizophrenia Outcome • Schizophrenia • • Schizophrenia Treatment and Outcome • May 11 09 In 1994, a study by J.D. Hegarty and colleagues examined existing data to figure out just how likely patients are to recover from schizophrenia. These researchers studied outcome data from more than 100 years for… The Schizophrenia Prognosis • Schizophrenia • • The Course of Schizophrenia • May 11 09 In summary, fewer than 20 percent of patients with a first episode of schizophrenia have a good prognosis. That means that fewer than 20 out of every 100 schizophrenia patients are likely to marry,… 10 Warning signs of schizophrenia as identified by family members • Schizophrenia • • The Course of Schizophrenia • May 11 09 1. Deterioration of personal hygiene 2. Sleeping excessively or inability to sleep 3. Unexpected hostility 4. Extreme preoccupation with religion… Stages of schizophrenia • Schizophrenia • • The Course of Schizophrenia • May 11 09 Researchers have identified three stages of schizophrenia: Prodromal Stage. The first stage is called the prodromal stage and refers to the year before the illness appears. The term prodrome is derived from the Greek… The Course of Schizophrenia • Schizophrenia • • The Course of Schizophrenia • May 11 09 Kevin recently attended his first appointment at the mental health clinic. At 25 years of age, Kevin lives with his cousin Natalie and works for a radio station. Natalie is worried about Kevin… Misdiagnosis, or other disorders that may look like schizophrenia • Schizophrenia • • Schizophrenia Diagnosis • May 11 09 It is crucial to realize that schizophrenia is not the cause of all psychotic symptoms. Psychosis is a general term used to describe psychotic symptoms whereas schizophrenia is… Subtypes of Schizophrenia • Schizophrenia • • Schizophrenia Diagnosis • May 11 09 Once a patient is diagnosed with schizophrenia, a clinician considers his or her symptoms and determines a subtype diagnosis. There are four subtypes of schizophrenia. Each subtype is based upon the types of… Diagnostic Criteria • Schizophrenia • • Schizophrenia Diagnosis • May 11 09 All the behaviors you just read about may be symptoms of schizophrenia, although very few patients with schizophrenia exhibit all these symptoms. Instead, most individuals with the disease display a few of these symptoms. The… Symptom Categories • Schizophrenia • • Schizophrenia Diagnosis • May 11 09 Schizophrenia is a disease that does not discriminate based on race, culture, social status, or gender. Anywhere in the world, in every culture, one person out of every hundred suffers from schizophrenia. Signs of schizophrenia… Diagnosing Schizophrenia • Schizophrenia • • Schizophrenia Diagnosis • May 11 09 Emilio is a 40-year-old man who came to the hospital with his mother. He is dressed in a dirty coat, bedroom slippers, and a baseball cap and has several medals hanging around his neck. He… Schizophrenia Treatment approaches • Schizophrenia • • Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia • May 06 09 General principles While antipsychotic drugs remain the cornerstone of treatment in child and adolescent onset schizophrenia, all young patients with schizophrenia require a multimodal treatment package that includes pharmacotherapy, family and individual counselling,… Schizophrenia Course and Outcome • Schizophrenia • • Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia • May 06 09 Short-term course Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia characteristically runs a chronic course, with only a small minority of cases making a full symptomatic recovery from the first psychotic episode. In the Maudsley… Schizophrenia Neuropsychology • Schizophrenia • • Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia • May 06 09 Pattern of cognitive deficits There is growing awareness that cognitive deficits in schizophrenia represent a core feature of the disorder and cannot simply be dismissed as secondary consequences of psychotic symptoms (Breier 1999). The… Schizophrenia Genetics • Schizophrenia • • Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia • May 06 09 Genetic risk and early onset schizophrenia If there is a continuum of transmitted liability for schizophrenia then, as with other disorders of presumed multifactorial origin, early onset cases of schizophrenia should be associated with… Neurobiology of schizophrenia • Schizophrenia • • Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia • May 06 09 Neurodevelopmental models of schizophrenia Over the last decade the concept of schizophrenia as a neurodevelopmental disorder has taken a strong hold, although ‘neurodevelopmental’ is often used with a wide range of meanings. It… Aetiology and risk factors - Schizophrenia • Schizophrenia • • Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia • May 06 09 Pregnancy and birth complications Pregnancy and birth complications (PBCs) have been implicated as a risk factor in schizophrenia. In a metaanalysis of 20 case - control studies, subjects who developed… Schizophrenia Epidemiology • Schizophrenia • • Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia • May 06 09 Incidence and prevalence Good population-based incidence figures for child and adolescent onset schizophrenia are notably lacking. What data do exist describe broader categories of psychosis, with diagnoses made… Schizophrenia Diagnosis and differential diagnosis • Schizophrenia • • Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia • May 06 09 Diagnostic validity There is now compelling evidence that schizophrenia can be identified using unmodified adult criteria in children as young as 7 years of age (Green et al. 1984; Russell et… Schizophrenia Differential Diagnosis • Schizophrenia • • Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia • May 06 09 Psychotic symptoms in children and adolescents are diagnostically non-specific, occurring in a wide range of functional psychiatric, neurodevelopmental and organic brain disorders. The differential diagnosis of schizophrenia in childhood and adolescence is summarized in… Schizophrenia clinical features • Schizophrenia • • Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia • May 06 09 Clinical phases of schizophrenia Premorbid social and developmental impairments Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia is characterized by poor premorbid functioning and early developmental delays (Alaghband-Rad et al. 1995; Hollis 1995). Similar developmental and… Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia • Schizophrenia • • Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia • May 06 09 Schizophrenia is one of the most devastating psychiatric disorders to affect children and adolescents. Although extremely rare before the age of 10, the incidence of schizophrenia rises steadily through adolescence to reach… Schizophrenia Neurobiological correlates • Schizophrenia • • The symptoms of schizophrenia • May 06 09 Postmortem and neuroimaging studies have provided evidence of structural and physiological abnormalities in the brains of patients with schizophrenia. Studies using neuroimaging techniques, studies investigating cognitive impairment, genetic investigations and studies of response to… Page 5 of 7 pages « First < 3 4 5 6 7 > << Back to main
