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4. Sean has been diagnosed with moderate Schizophrenia. In an effort to improve his ability to socialize appropriately, he and a group of other schizophrenics are invited to your workplace for one week to work on this skill as part of their rehabilitation. At lunch, surprisingly, Sean asks to sit with you. What should you say to support Sean and why should you take this approach?
Sean has been diagnosed with moderate Schizophrenia. In an effort to improve his ability to socialize appropriately, he and a group of other schizophrenics are invited to your workplace for one week to work on this skill as part of their rehabilitation. At lunch, surprisingly, Sean asks to sit with you. What should you say to support Sean and why should you take this approach?
Sean has been diagnosed with moderate schizophrenia and I’m putting an effort to increase his abilities of socialisation. Sean inviting me to sit with him at lunch, indicates that he means to try and talk to me because he has somehow gained some amount of trust to talk to me. I should begin to talk to him. It is wrong to think that since a person is suffering from schizophrenia they might behave strangely. Though, being cautious would help. If I would reject this request, one of the first trials of socialisation would be a fail and he might not try to socialise again. Hence, his request should be agreed to.