Description
This second edition of Schizophrenia: A Practical Primer, includes decades of clinical and research experience in the field and helps readers understand what schizophrenia is and how it is managed.
Schizophrenia is a devastating illness that affects more than 50 million people worldwide. Written to help anyone who is faced with managing schizophrenia, whether as a clinician, patient, friend, or family member, this accessible book is an ideal first stop for practical, up-to-date information. It includes an overview of schizophrenia and provides answers to common questions that arise on different aspects of the illness, such as: diagnosis, pharmacological and psychotherapeutic management, treatment challenges and achieving recovery. Beyond these key issues, the book includes developments in the neurobiology of the illness, foreseeable developments and the history of schizophrenia. It also includes brief, realistic case vignettes adapted from clinical experience, and questions interspersed throughout the book to aid understanding.
This book is essential for professional trainee and early-career mental-health workers, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors and nurses, and is written to cover in a concise and accessible way what is of immediate and practical relevance to gain familiarity with schizophrenia.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 What is and is not schizophrenia?
Chapter 2 Assessment of schizophrenia
Chapter 3 Social determinants of health affecting assessment
Chapter 4 Schizophrenia, spirituality and religion
Chapter 5 Putting together the (clinical) pieces
Chapter 6 Talking to patients and families
Chapter 7 Early intervention and prevention for schizophrenia
Chapter 8 Managing symptoms and preventing relapse: Pharmacological approach
Chapter 9 Psychosocial approaches to improve symptoms and functional outcomes
Chapter 10 Managing treatment-related complications
Chapter 11 Suboptimal treatment response
Chapter 12 Medication nonadherence
Chapter 13 Managing decompensation and relapse
Chapter 14 Suicide and violence
Chapter 15 Achieving recovery
Chapter 16 History of schizophrenia
Chapter 17 Who gets schizophrenia and why?
Chapter 18 Neurobiology of schizophrenia
Chapter 19 What does the future hold?
Glossary of terms
Helpful Resources
Index
