Schizophrenia
Friday's Progress Notes - October 21, 2009
Mental Health Information - Vol. 13 Issue 10
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CONTENTS
1. Schizophrenia diagnosis and treatment
2. CBT techniques for treating schizophrenia
3. Schizophrenia and social work
4. Motivational interviewing for people with schizophrenia
5. Treatment tool for homeless patients
6. Palliative care for a patient with schizophrenia
7. Avoiding ethnic bias when diagnosing schizophrenia
8. Co-occurring substance use and psychosis
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Schizophrenia is a severe disturbance of the brain's functioning. Today's newsletter focuses on diagnosis and management of the disease.
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1. AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN
Schizophrenia: A Review
Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness that impairs mental and social functioning and often leads to comorbid diseases.
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20070615/1821.html
2. FOCUS
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Review
CBT techniques include development of trust, normalizing, coping strategy enhancement, reality testing, and work with dysfunctional affective and behavioral reactions to psychotic symptoms.
http://focus.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/4/2/223
3. THE SOCIAL WORK PODCAST
Schizophrenia and Social Work: Interview with Shaun Eack, PhD
Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCSW, interviews Shaun Eack, PhD, who discusses diagnostic issues and the role of the social worker in working with people with schizophrenia.
http://www.athealth.com/apps/redirect.cfm?linkid=314
4. MEDSCAPE
Motivational Interviewing of People with Schizophrenia
Effective treatment for people with schizophrenia combines medication management with psychiatric rehabilitation strategies. (Complimentary registration required.)
5. VIRTUAL MENTOR
Outpatient Commitment: A Treatment Tool for the Mentally Ill?
This clinical case illustrates the benefits and risks of outpatient commitment as a means for managing mental illness in homeless patients.
6. PSYCHIATRY MMC
Good Palliative Care for a Patient with Schizophrenia Dying of Emphysema
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Brief Supportive Psychotherapy for a Patient with Chronic Schizophrenia
This two-part composite case discusses the treatment of a man with chronic schizophrenia who was enrolled in hospice after his pulmonary and cardiac disease began to progress rapidly.
http://www.athealth.com/apps/redirect.cfm?linkid=316
7. CURRENT PSYCHIATRY ONLINE
How to Avoid Ethnic Bias When Diagnosing Schizophrenia
This article analyzes four factors that contribute to misinterpretation and to ethnic misdiagnosis of schizophrenia. Culturally sensitive strategies are offered to avoid diagnostic bias in clinical practice. (Complimentary registration required.)
http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/article_pages.asp?AID=641
8. CROSSCURRENTS
Double Whammy: When Early Psychosis and Substance Use Go Hand in Hand
Co-occurring substance use and psychosis can make detection, diagnosis and, ultimately, treatment and recovery particularly challenging.
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