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The paper tells that the goals of treatment for paranoid- type schizophrenia emphasize the promotion of safety of the client and other involved people, ensuring proper nutrition, enhancing therapeutic relationship between the client and the therapist, and prevention of complications associated with medications and inappropriate social behavior.... Potent psychotropic drugs may affect the organ function, especially the liver and kidneys, of clients on prolonged therapy....
6 Pages
(1500 words)
Case Study
From the research it is clear that general treatment of schizophrenia may be applied to clients with paranoid type, with specific emphasis on safety, nutrition, and establishment of a therapeutic relationship.... This paper will discuss the evidence based practice of strategies used to treat the schizophrenia .... Center of discussion in this paper is schizophrenia as a kind of disease that affects the brain.... An organization knows an optimal treatment project was developed to use evidence based approach to treating schizophrenia disorders....
10 Pages
(2500 words)
Essay
This study "The Potential Effectiveness of CBT Interventions in the Treatment of Individuals with schizophrenia" found major improvements in patient psychosocial functioning, attainment of treatment goals, reduction of symptomatology and hospitalizations that were maintained at 1-year follow-up....
18 Pages
(4500 words)
Case Study
major indication for using medication when conducting counseling, particularly for those patients with major mental disorders such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder is that psychotropic agents reduce anxiety and hostility.... According to American Counseling Association Guidelines, it should not be a system in which the therapist meets with the patient on an occasional or irregular basis to monitor the effects of medication or to make notations on some rating scale to assess progress or side effects of psychotropic medications; rather, it should be a system in which both therapies are integrated and synergistic....
12 Pages
(3000 words)
Essay
People with schizophrenia can hear voices that to them seem to come from outside but actually internally generated as reflections of their very own distorted thoughts and thought processes.... In this work, an attempt will be made to understand the disease of schizophrenia from the perspectives of prevalence, causes, the affected population, and difficulty with the disease and evaluate the role of community-based psychiatric services in amelioration of the disease burden in society....
11 Pages
(2750 words)
Research Paper
The aim of this study was to evaluate the misuse of cannabis in patients with schizophrenia and review the current knowledge as well as identify knowledge gaps on the possibility of links between cannabis misuse and the exasperation of symptoms in these patients.... The aim of the study is to evaluate the misuse of cannabis in patients with schizophrenia and review the current knowledge as well as identify knowledge gaps on the possibility of links between cannabis misuse and the exasperation of symptoms in these patients....
31 Pages
(7750 words)
Research Paper
Most recently, this therapeutic modality has been evaluated as an appropriate tool for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia.... To answer this question, one must carefully evaluate the data obtained from studies involving the use of CBT to treat patients with schizophrenia.... The author outlines schizophrenia and its Relationship to cognitive behavioral therapy.... schizophrenia has been defined as a disorder of the mind that results in distorted thinking patterns, often accompanied by paranoid or delusional thinking which may or may not be associated with auditory or, rarely, visual hallucinations....
18 Pages
(4500 words)
Research Paper
He lives at a community/shared housing and was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2005.... MRI and post-mortem have identified psychopathology of people with schizophrenia as having structural brain deficits particularly frontotemporal volume reduction and ventricular enlargement.... "Clinical Manifestation, Diagnostic Criteria, and Psychopathology of schizophrenia" paper evaluate a case study of a schizophrenic patient.... schizophrenia is a serious, complex, and disabling mental illness that is associated with significant impairment in social and vocational functioning....
15 Pages
(3750 words)
Case Study