Understanding and Caring for People with Schizophrenia - 9780367370107

Taylor & Francis

Understanding and Caring for People with SchizophreniaFifteen Clinical Cases\nAuthor(s): Ragy R. Girgis, Gary Brucato, Jeffrey A. Lieberman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367370107, 978-0367370107\nSynopsis\nThis 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. \n\nThe authors illustrate such effectiveness through fifteen case studies examining psychosis in diverse clients. These case studies are divided into the three phases of the illnessprodromal/clinical high risk, first-episode, chronic, and treatment-refractorywith accompanying analyses of the causes, symptoms, interventions and treatments. By depicting patients at different clinical stages of the illness, with accompanying explana.