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What psychosocial interventions are useful in the treatment of schizophrenia? What limitations are there in current treatment models?
Answer:
Schizophrenia is a one of the serious psychological disorder. It
affect patients adversely by limiting or impairing their thought
process,emotions,social and decision making skills etc.
training.
• Psychosocial interventions that are important and
useful in treatment of schizophrenia:
• By Psychological education of families.
• By making Self help groups
• By Cognitive therapy.(CBT)
• By rehabilitation(cognitive).
• Family education
• Social skill training
There are many limitations in current treatment models are:
• Long term use of psychodrugs may cause very harmful
effect.
• Schizophrenia is very different disorder than other
mental disorder hence same treatment processes can not be apply to
different individual.
There are four basic models :
• pharmacological models,
• developmental models
• lesion models
• genetic models.