Lieberman Jeffrey A.
Lieberman Jeffrey A. - Understanding And Caring For People With Schizophrenia Fifteen Clinical Cases - Paperback
Lieberman Jeffrey A. - Understanding And Caring For People With Schizophrenia Fifteen Clinical Cases - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Understanding And Caring For People With Schizophrenia Fifteen Clinical Cases
Author(s): Lieberman Jeffrey A.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367369996
Pages: 136 Pages
Publication Date: 10/30/2020
Category: Psychotherapy
Description: 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.
Title: Understanding And Caring For People With Schizophrenia Fifteen Clinical Cases
Author(s): Lieberman Jeffrey A.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367369996
Pages: 136 Pages
Publication Date: 10/30/2020
Category: Psychotherapy
