Schizophrenia : A Practical Primer

by Reddy; Ravinder

• ISBN13: 9781841845296
• ISBN10: 1841845299
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-03-15
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

"Schizophrenia: A Practical Primer is designed to provide essential, detailed, state-of-the-art information in easily digestible segments, with user-friendly references that are key reading for primary care physicians, psychiatry trainees, and early career mental health workers (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counsellors, and nurses)." "Each chapter is laden with brief case vignettes, adapted from real clinical experience of the authors, which illustrate the issues under consideration. Each chapter has questions interspersed to facilitate information retention as well as helpful and relevant mnemonics, case studies and tables throughout the book."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Introduction	ix
What is and is not schizophrenia?	1	(8)
Assessment of schizophrenia	9	(20)
Non-illness related factors affecting assessment	29	(8)
Schizophrenia, spirituality, and religion	37	(4)
Putting together the (clinical) pieces	41	(10)
Talking to patients and families	51	(6)
Prognostication	57	(6)
Phase-specific treatment	63	(8)
Managing symptoms: pharmacological approach	71	(8)
Managing symptoms: psychosocial approaches	79	(6)
Rehabilitation: road to recovery	85	(6)
Managing treatment-related complications	91	(10)
Suboptimal treatment response	101	(10)
Treatment non-adherence	111	(10)
Managing decompensation and relapse	121	(6)
Suicide and violence	127	(4)
Achieving recovery	131	(6)
History of schizophrenia	137	(6)
Who gets schizophrenia and why?	143	(8)
Neurobiology of schizophrenia	151	(10)
What does the future hold?	161	(44)
Appendices
A Glossary of terms	165	(14)
B Medications used in treating schizophrenia	179	(6)
C Bibliography	185	(10)
E Sources of help and information	195	(10)
Index	205