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This book challenges professional and public misconceptions of
schizophrenia as an illness with intractable symptoms and
inexorable mental deterioration, educating clinicians and
researchers on the effectiveness of treatment to change the course
of or prevent the onset of illness. The authors illustrate such
effectiveness through fifteen case studies examining psychosis in
diverse clients. These case studies are divided into the three
phases of the illness-prodromal/clinical high risk, first-episode,
chronic, and treatment-refractory-with accompanying analyses of the
causes, symptoms, interventions and treatments. By depicting
patients at different clinical stages of the illness, with
accompanying explanations of how they got to that point, what might
have been done to avoid - or has been done to achieve - this
outcome, the reader will gain an appreciation of the nature of the
illness and for the therapeutic potential of currently available
treatments. Readers will learn about the various clinical aspects
of schizophrenia and treatment including diagnosis, prognosis,
clinical presentation, suicide risk, cognitive deficits, stigma,
medication management, and psychosocial interventions.
This book challenges professional and public misconceptions of
schizophrenia as an illness with intractable symptoms and
inexorable mental deterioration, educating clinicians and
researchers on the effectiveness of treatment to change the course
of or prevent the onset of illness. The authors illustrate such
effectiveness through fifteen case studies examining psychosis in
diverse clients. These case studies are divided into the three
phases of the illness-prodromal/clinical high risk, first-episode,
chronic, and treatment-refractory-with accompanying analyses of the
causes, symptoms, interventions and treatments. By depicting
patients at different clinical stages of the illness, with
accompanying explanations of how they got to that point, what might
have been done to avoid - or has been done to achieve - this
outcome, the reader will gain an appreciation of the nature of the
illness and for the therapeutic potential of currently available
treatments. Readers will learn about the various clinical aspects
of schizophrenia and treatment including diagnosis, prognosis,
clinical presentation, suicide risk, cognitive deficits, stigma,
medication management, and psychosocial interventions.
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