Treatments For The Schizophrenias
Properly diagnosed, the schizophrenias are fundamentally biological disorders
that presently respond best to pharmacological treatments. Because
the schizophrenias are a diverse collection of disorders, and because the
development of psychotropic medications is a burgeoning industry, it is even
less useful here than elsewhere, to recommend specific drugs for particular
schizophrenic disorders.
As discussed, which drug is prescribed
will depend heavily on the particular symptoms that are manifested.
In the treatment of the schizophrenias, it is often necessary to decide
whether or not to hospitalize the individual. Such decisions should be made
in close consultation with both the client and the therapist. Often enough,
brief hospitalizations can be quite useful in that they allow a careful examination
of the patient's difficulties, as well as prescription of psychotropic
medication. Moreover, such hospitalizations often take the pressure off the
patient and his or her family, affording the momentary relief that allows all
parties to recoup strength and perspective. Longer periods of hospitalization
may prove to be necessary for certain patients, but the longer the hospitalization
the greater the probability of merely marginal adjustment after discharge.
If a decision is made to hospitalize, it is important for the patient's wellbeing
that family and close friends establish regular contact with both the
patient and the hospital staff. Too often, hospitalized psychiatric patients,
especially long-term ones, are "warehoused" out of sight and, without malicious
intent, forgotten. Regular contact with loved ones very likely accelerates
progress in the hospital and increases the likelihood that post-hospital
adjustment will be satisfactory.
Where long-term hospitalization is a prospect, consider first less restrictive
alternatives, if they exist within or near the community. Supervised
halfway houses are especially attractive as therapeutic alternatives because
they minimally disrupt the contact between the patients and their social environment,
and because, unlike psychiatric hospitals, they are so patently
temporary residences. Day hospitals, which provide day time care for patients
and return them to their families in the evenings, are sometimes also
alternatives to full hospitalization.
Specific treatments, where they exist, are the quickest and most effective
way of treating specific problems. Unfortunately, however, there continue
to be problems for which no specific treatment is really effective. Autism is
one such problem, and some forms of schizophrenia are others. Such problems
are presently untreatable, but the future holds promise for their treatment.
Most of the specific biological and psychological treatments that were
described here simply did not exist thirty years ago.
Progress in this area has been explosive and likely will accelerate further in
coming years.
For mild symptoms of schizophrenia I recommend this therapy.
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