Schizophrenia: A New Guide for Clinicians Hardcover - 2002

Contains guidelines and recommendations-in tabular form for quick reference-on patient evaluation and optimal treatment for long-term care!Based on evidence from recent systematic clinical research studies, this comprehensive reference provides the latest information on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of schizophrenia-highlighting modern diagnostic tools and current therapeutic advances for the prevention of hallucinations, thought disorganization, and negative symptoms.Emphasizes family education and psychoeducation, and community-centered treatments for patient rehabilitation and adherence to management programs!With consideration of the chronic nature of the disease, Schizophrenia detailsthe effect of substance abuse and drug dependence on rehabilitation and treatment"second-generation" antipsychotic drugs, including olanzapine, quetiapine, risperiodone, and ziprasidonecontemporary strategies to prevent depression and suicidepatterns of patient compliance and noncomplianceviolence and forensic hospitalizationWith over 600 useful references, Schizophrenia is an essential source for psychiatrists and psychopharmacologists, clinical neurologists and neuropsychopharmacologists, psychologists, primary care physicians, social workers, nurses, and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines.

This chapter is intended to help you enter into conversations with patients who have schizophrenia (referred to more briefly, if less accurately, in the remainder of this chapter as schizophrenic patients), conversations that will allow the two of you to begin to get to know each other and that might hold the promise of developing the therapeutic alliance on which successful treatment so heavily depends.