The treatment for Schizophrenia includes both medications and
psychological interventions, individuals suffering from
Schizophrenia has to take life long medications.The short goals and
long term goals are
Short term goals:
- Identifying the symptoms and diagnosis properly
- Treating of psychotic symptoms with medications.
- Creating an awareness in the patient regarding his/her
conditions and helping them to acknowledge those.
Long term
- Setting life goals through psychological interventions and
therapy.
- Bringing them back to their life by supporting them to engage
in their favorite activities.
- Decreasing feelings of isolation
- Improving physical health and creating awareness regarding
it.
- Helping them to understand what they want from their life,
helping and guiding them to have meaning for their life.
Recommendations
- Creating public awareness for removal of stigma associated with
Schizophrenia.
- An early intervention is always better ,so creating an
awareness in public to have regular check-ups for their mental
health as they do for their physical health.