Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

It is a mental disorder (long term), which involves the breakdown of the relationship between behaviour, emotion and thought-leading to inappropriate feelings and actions, faulty perception and withdrawal from personal relationships and reality into delusion, fantasy and mental and mental fragmentation sense.

Psychosocial Perspectives of Schizophrenia

Social Drift

Research implicates that psychotic disorders (clinical features) play a significant role in contributing to the downward socioeconomic trajectory (gradual). As a result, it is critical to note that people suffering from schizophrenia, among other related disorders, mostly reside in socioeconomically deprived areas compared to the general population.

Urban Myth

It is one of the puzzles questioning why several cases of schizophrenia occur in early adulthood and late adolescent. Indeed, structural neuroimaging shows that people with the disorder are faced with prominent progressive changes in the brain during this time.

Stress and Relapse

A significant number of people with schizophrenia are known to abuse drugs. In most cases, they abuse Marijuana. Indeed, stress is a problem leading to schizophrenia relapse. Indeed, stress is known to be increased by relapse.

Influence of the family

Schizophrenogenic Mothers

Psychotic illness is known to cause, although it does not need to interfere with the parenting abilities of an individual. When mothers with this disorder are given the appropriate, well-timed, adequate resources and education, they can succeed in good parenting.

Double Binds

This theory proposes that symptoms of schizophrenia are expressed as social interactions whereby individuals are exposed repeatedly to injunctions (conflicting) without the opportunities of adequate responding to the injunctions or even ignoring them (escaping the field).

Emotional Experiences

Schizophrenic people are unreliable reporters when it comes to their individual emotional experiences. Affected individuals have similar experiences shown by depressed people. When shown sensitive, stimulating films, they exhibit less facial expressions than healthy people, although they report more significant autonomic responses and similar emotional experiences.

Characteristics

Family Oriented Therapy

Family therapy for people with schizophrenia includes structured problem solving, emotional processing and regulation, stress reduction, as well as education. Indeed, the group works together in improving their knowledge when it comes to the disorder and the appropriate management.

Assertive Community Treatment programs

Most of these programs have the same structures, and they are centred on personal needs, strengths and desires for the future. The aim of these programs is integrating and getting the person back to other services which help an individual to learn on their own. Notably, they get a person back to live a healthy life. More importantly, the ACT programs have a holistic approach to treatment where all areas of life are targeted to improvement.