Schizophrenia And DSM-5 Summary

In Drake’s article (2000), Schizophrenia and many other mental health disorders are not being providing with additional treatment help. In 1998, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill consensus panel, consisted of mental health treatment and services researchers, consumers, family advocates, identified six areas of practice that were strongly supported by experimental research: the use of medication, training in illness self-management, case management based on principles of assertive community treatment, family psychoeducation, supported employment, and integrated substance abuse treatment. It was suggested that these practices could be delivered in a grouping technique and instead of just one treatment at a time. Another area that was

Disordered thinking, lack of emotional expressiveness, and disturbances in their movement or behavior are just a few consequences of Schizophrenia. DSM-V critique as to having two or more of these symptoms for one month during a six month period of symptom disturbances: hallucinations, delusions, disorganized symptoms, catatonic behaviors, or negative symptoms. Disorganized symptoms which are strange patterns of speech, behavior, or emotion include inappropriate emotional behavior, unusual behavior and forms of catatonia. Negative symptoms are abnormal deficits in function which includes avolition, lack of initiation and persistence; alogia, absence of speech; anhedonia, absences of pleasure; asociality, inability to form personal relationships; and affective flattening, little expressed emotion in voice and face. Schizophrenia is one of the most common psychotic disorders and with an effective treatment routine this disorder could become easier to live

Family intervention approaches have been created to minimize negative symptoms which included multiple family vs single family sessions, cognitive-behavioral therapy, treatment duration, and clinic-based or home services. Effective family programs had a collaborative relationship between the treatment team, family, and those with schizophrenia while providing basic schizophrenia education and how it can be managed, strategies to decrease tension and stress (family and individual wise), focus on future improvement, and being in family treatment for at least six months. Short-term programs improved knowledge but didn’t decrease the severity that schizophrenia could take. A long-term two year program showed consistent positive effects, like the risk for relapse or re-hospitalization. A improve the quality of family