¶ … Schizophrenia patient development of social skills and coping skills in the support group; how support group can help them within group session.
Schizophrenia is observed in more than a couple of million adult Americans, both men and women. It is serious, chronic mental disorder in which the social dispensation as well as day-to-day activities are affected negatively. The main challenge that the patient then faces is that of ability to distinguish the real from the apparent. The patients suffer speech disorder (incoherence), hallucinations, illusionary perceptions and the like. It is most predominantly found to start afflicting people in their later stages of adulthood, though the onset may well be observed in the later teenage or early twenties, too. (NAMI, 2011). The caretakers and support structure is still divided on the opinion of the causation and prevalence and has been a subject of continuing debate for more than seven decades now. Psychoanalysts and family therapists' etiological opinion places the blame squarely on the parents. As if to support this generalization, EE (Expressed Emotion) has also opined that the causative factors lie within the family members of the patient. Later studies done in this field however try to see this as more of a brain disorder and it is against this premise that the impact that the family has, is measured in the etiology of Schizophrenia. These studies point out the possibility of inability to bear stress in the individual as a possible cause of the debilitating disorder for one and the communication disability lineage inheritance as the possible other cause of schizophrenia. This paper seeks to understand schizophrenia in the light of the new insights on this malady. The best persons that could help the patient and his family would be the experienced nurses and medical support staff that have an extensive knowledge of neurobiology. The connect between schizophrenia and neurobiological science is a highly specialized stream of medical science and is hence very complicated, yet it is essential to understand the basics to be able to serve the best interests of the patient and his family given the fact that the behavioral patterns can be highly unpredictable (Wuerker, 2000).
Introduction
The common perception of schizophrenia is that of a physical ailment or disability or even a disease. The actual construct of schizophrenia is far removed from this perception. The perception that lead to this inference are but a manifestation of the symptoms reported by the patients themselves or their inability to conduct themselves in accordance with the social norms or even in individual capacities. Scholars and doctors responsible for formatting and amending the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) would be inclined to agree that these are only theoretical ramifications of the unexplained (Andresen, 1994; Bra user, 2011; Frances & Widiger,2012).
The patients are actually normal human beings with aspirations, skills and feelings. In as much, they are not apparently different from the common populace. It is their negative inclinations that can not only harm themselves but also their near and dear ones. Their conduct can have a veritable impact on the lives of extending from self to entire communities in their proximity. It is brain disorder and can hence be understood to cause most unbecoming, abrupt acts and behaviors that are non-linear, unpredictable and cause awe or shocking reactions. Ostracizing of such individuals is not uncommon and that leads to severance of ties with those that could best help their rehabilitation, their families. They live deprived, depraved lives. The society has known to shun such individuals and early treatment is advised. The social rejection can lead to impoverished living and drifting lives and high probability of suicide (NAMI, 2011).
In the absence of full understanding of the neurological disorder, such patients are often destined to live captivity for want of proper diagnoses, treatment and rehabilitation services. Such initiatives could help the patient live normal satisfying and useful life. (NAMI, 2011).
Statement of the Problem
The symptoms of patients afflicted by schizophrenia are liable to be misunderstood as physical infirmities or even diseases. Proper education in this area is hard to come by and hence early occurrence of symptoms may go unreported leading to deferred diagnoses and remedial or care giving measures that further leads to deteriorating condition of the patient, that is an avoidable situation. The new studies on schizophrenia have identified it to a brain disorder that may also have genetic bearings. By implication, the care that needs to be given needs very experienced hands that are also aware of neurological sciences. In absence of such adept services adequate care is found to be wanting and the situation is seen to worsen in many cases. The social factor plays a very...
An initial psychotic episode is often the result, with immediate in-hospital treatment recommended for testing and observation. Treatment includes anti-psychotic medication and patients often respond well, particularly in milder cases of the illness. (Csernansky, 2001) However, a general inability to adapt socially will persist and prevent a "normal" existence for these individuals. In one case, a female patient described her general personality despite medication as characterized by "low self-esteem,
Schizophrenia Psychosis and Lifespan D Schizophrenia and Psychosis and Lifespan Development Schizophrenia and Psychosis Matrix Disorder Major DSM-IV-TR Categories Classifications Subclassifications Schizophrenia and Psychosis Symptoms Positive (Type I): represent excesses or distortions from normal functioning Delusions Bizarre Nonbizarre Hallucinations Auditory Visual Disorganized Speech Loose Association Neologisms Clang Associations Echolalia/Echopraxia Word Salad Grossly disorganized behavior Catatonic: motoric Waxy Flexibility Negative (Type II): the absence of functioning Apathy Affective Flattening Withdrawal Anhedonia Avolition Poor Concentration Poverty of speech Alogia Schizophrenia and Psychosis Diagnostic Types Paranoid Delusions and Hallucinations Disorganized Disorganized speech Disorganized behavior Withdrawal Affective flattening Catatonic Grossly disorganized behavior Disorganized speech Catatonic Echolalia/Echopraxia Undifferentiated Active symptoms that do not fit other diagnostic types Residual No Type I symptoms but some negative symptoms Schizoaffective
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