Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Schizophrenia
- Symptoms
- A lack of interest in things
- Feeling disconnected from your feelings
- Difficulty concentraiting
- Wanting to avoid people
- Hallucinations
- Hearing voices
- Dilusions
- Feeling like you need to be proteted
- Causes/triggers
- Genetics - The condition
runs in families
- Stress - Phychological trigger
for the condition
- Drug abuse - May trigger
symptoms of the condition
- Potential Impacts
- Physical
- Patients may harm themselves
- Interlectual
- People who have been diagnosed
with the condition at an early age will
miss out on school or university whilst
they recover. In serious case, the
patient will be admitted to psychiatric
hospital or ward whilst they recover
- Emotional
- Confused
- Upset
- Angry
- Agitated
- Suspicioud of others
- Social
- The patient may find it difficult to
maintain a close emotional and
sexual relationship
- Friends, family and others may be
reluctant to interact with the patient
- Patient may be withdrawn and isolated
- Majority of contact the patient may have would be with care professionals
- Feeling uncomfortable around others
- Financial
- Unable to work due to not being a fit state
of mind - no income for self or for family
- Treatments and Managment
- Usually treated with an
individually tailored combination
of therapy and medication
- Antipsychotics are usually recommended as the initial treatment
for the symptoms of an acute schizophrenic episode. They work by
blocking the effect of the chemical dopamine on the brain
- Psychological treatment can help people with schizophrenia
cope with the symptoms of hallucinations or delusions better.
They can also help treat some of the negative symptoms of
schizophrenia, such as apathy or a lack of enjoyment
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
aims to help you identify the thinking
patterns that are causing you to have
unwanted feelings and behaviour, and
learn to replace this thinking with
more realistic and useful thoughts.
- Councelling
- Arts therapy
- Arts therapies are designed to promote
creative expression. Working with an
arts therapist in a small group or
individually can allow you to express
your experiences with schizophrenia
- Contact and support from
community mental health
workers
- Patient Care Pathway
- Patient Centred Approach
- Putting the patient at the centre
of the care process
- The patient needs to be
involved with the decision
making as an equal partner
- Those involved in the patients care will try
to recognise ways in which the patient can
take responsibility for their own health and
wellbeing
- Patient will be treated with dignity and
respect. This will also help the patient be more
engaging and involved in their own care
- Practitioners will show understanding and
compassion as the patient will feel vulnerable
- The patient will need help to make appropriate health
and lifestyle changes to manage their condition
- Diagnosing
- If you're experiences an of the
symptoms, go to the GP and they
will diagnose you with the condition
or decide whether your symptoms
are due to something else