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PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
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HOW
WHY
WHEn
psychosocial treatment
of schizophrenia
Harshpinder kaur
Is it the most effective way of treament?
Introduction
For years now, the idea of using psychosocial treatment has attracted robust discussions among psychologists and mental health experts. However, it seems there has never been a solid consensus that psychosocial interventions might be vital in the treatment and management of patients suffering from schizophrenia. In my presentation, I will give a justification for choosing this study. Additionally, I will highlight inquiry questions and explain why psychosocial treatment is effective for handling schizophrenia and some of the requirements of such patients. I will also give a brief explanation of psychosocial treatment designs and implementations and its treatment approaches. I will give some of its benefits and include scholarly journals and my reflection throughout the study. I will finish with my own learning of the material and conclude and I hope you will be having a fantastic time learning about the discovery!
WHAT
RATIONALE
rationale
In my volunteering experience, I found the opportunity to interact with a schizophrenic patient and his family. They talked about the kind of treatments both medical and psychosocial that the patient had been receiving over the past years and the situations in the different cases. The experience challenged my former beliefs about treatment of schizophrenia. I was not aware that psychosocial treatments can work better than biological medications. I thought schizophrenia is a serious disease that only deals with remission of acute episodes, thwarting relapses and managing the symptoms and hence it requires medical doses only. I went ahead to interact with other patients and observed how they reacted to both medical and psychosocial treatments and I actually found out that psychosocial treatments are very effective for schizophrenic patients as many patients talked about its benefits based on its diffuse nature of residual neurocognitive impairment and the social history that are characterized by different developments in growth stages. I found the experience satisfactory and I look forward to answering some of your questions about my research.
inquiry questions
IQ
- The main question that I wish to explore in my study is:
- Is psychosocial treatment the most effective way of handling schizophrenia?
- The questions that will assist me in my research are:
- What are the requirements of schizophrenic patients?
- What is the design and implementation procedure for schizophrenic patients?
- What are the treatment approaches for psychosocial treatments?
what is psychosocial treatment?
IDEAS
It is a therapy treatment formulated to look into personal aspects and how the aspects affects the condition. For example, with schizophrenic patients, it digs into the interpersonal aspects of the patient and how the aspect might relate to schizophrenia. Psychosocial treatments builds a patient emotionally and socially and mainly deals with a social unit e.g. family or coworkers.
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what schizophrenic patients require
• They require family-based psychoeducation.
• They must be offered crisis counselling when necessary
• The psychosocial treatment should be problem specific
• They should be provided with hospital rehabilitations and educational opportunities
• The counselling arrangements should be supervised.
• They should be provided with case management so that can obtain entitlements and procedures for treatment
(American Psychiatric Association, 2020)
types of psychosocial treatments
There are different types of psychosocial treatments that offer support to schizophrenic patients.
social skills trainig
It is a treatment procedure that is mainly delivered to individuals or groups of patients. The patients are offered educational skills on different behaviors that are critical and necessary on their interactions in a given social unit
social skillls
training
COGNITIVE THERAPY
COGNITIVE
THERAPY
It is important and constructive to teach patients on how they can manage their symptoms in order to control some of the residual signs. Self-talk and rational analysis are some of the cognitive behavior therapy techniques that have proven effective beyond doubt. Cognitive interventions reduce distress that are often associated with delusions and hallucinations. Most of the patients that executed this approach report significant stability over symptoms after a given period of time. .
FAMILY PSYCHOEDUCATION
family
psychoeducation
It is important that the family members participate in the treatment procedure of a patient. There are a lot of positive effects on a schizophrenic patients when their family members assist them in their recovery process. Models of different family interventions exist and have been tested and proven right. Family members share a strong relationship that can be studied as a branch of psychoeducation (Huxley, Rendall, & Sederer, 2000).
COGNITIVE REHABILITATION
COGNITIVE
REHABILITATION
Schizophrenia is usually associated with neurocognitive impairments which might have several adverse effects on community functioning,. Medication can only partially ameliorate the situation. Due to this, there have been initiation of cognitive rehabilitation programs that increases memory capacity, attention and also gives the patient the ability to solve problems. It consists of repetitive activities that concern neurocognitive tasks with application of computers (Mueser & Deavers, 2013).
What to consider in the design and implementation of psychological treatment programs of schizophrenia.
Individuals suffering from schizophrenia may end up showing different symptoms and some patients may show common symptoms as well different symptoms over a given period of time and so each treatment should be tailored to a given patient. The patient is the key player in the treatment interventions and must be included in each and every step and treatments must be adapted to the impairments of the patient. The treatment can also last for a long time usually it takes months or years (Bustillo et al., 2001).
Benefits of psychosocial treatments.
It improves communications skills, empowers the patient and provide different strategies of handling distress. It also improves collaboration among family members and helps reduce depression (Varga et al., 2018).
Critique of resources and comments.
Majority of the information I gathered from a book that that was written by American Psychiatric Association (2020), Practice guideline for The Treatment of Patients with Schizophrenia, Third Edition. Other books are written by professionals who have handled different cases of mental illnesses especially schizophrenia. Whatever is presented in these books are therefore something that has been debated on widely and a collection of research by different experts. Most of the authors of these books have wider experience on mental health especially Huxley the author of. Psychosocial treatments in schizophrenia: a review of the past 20 years. The Journal of nervous and mental disease.
However because the psychiatrists are only based in America, the information may be biased because it might have only focused on schizophrenic patients in America not all schizophrenic patients in the whole world
OVERAL LEARNING REFLECTION
According to me the information I gathered might must have been a success. The information was discussed widely throughout the books and different examples and case studies given to authenticate whatever was being relayed. I had the opportunity to notice some of the positive emotional changes on schizophrenic patients who underwent psychosocial treatment.
I also realized that schizophrenia mainly emerges from a social unit since most of the cases I met were family based. I also had the opportunity to interact with some of the psychiatrists to listen to their experience and they really praised and appreciated the role of psychosocial treatments on patients.
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CONCLUSION
The new generation of psychosocial treatment techniques have proven effective and yielded very promising result that the biological treatment of Schizophrenia. Psychosocial treatments makes schizophrenic patients to adjust effectively and has helped improved the social unit settings of the patients and the quality of their lives.
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QUESTIONS TO PONDER
- Are the interventions being improved periodically?
- Why are some patients showing different symptoms of Schizophrenia?
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REFERENCES
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American Psychiatric Association. (2020). The American Psychiatric Association practice guideline for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia. American Psychiatric Pub. https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.177901
Bustillo, J. R., Lauriello, J., Horan, W. P., & Keith, S. J. (2001). The psychosocial treatment of schizophrenia: an update. American Journal of Psychiatry, 158(2), 163-175. https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.158.2.163
Huxley, N. A., Rendall, M., & Sederer, L. (2000). Psychosocial treatments in schizophrenia: a review of the past 20 years. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 188(4), 187-201. https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2000/04000/Psychosocial_Treatments_in_Schizophrenia__A_Review.1.aspx
Mueser, K. T., & Deavers, F. (2013). Psychosocial treatments for schizophrenia. https://penn.web.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/7337/2021/11/Psychosocial-treatments-for-schizophrenia.pdf
Varga, E., Endre, S., Bugya, T., Tényi, T., & Herold, R. (2018). Community-based psychosocial treatment has an impact on social processing and functional outcome in schizophrenia. Frontiers in psychiatry, 9, 247. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00247/full