Living and Working with Schizophrenia : Information and support for patients, and their families, friends, employers, and teachers.

Living and Working with Schizophrenia : Information and support for patients, and their families, friends, employers, and teachers.

From the medical perspective, the authors explore in detail diagnosis and prognosis and describe the drugs used in the treatment of schizophrenia, with information on their effects and side-effects. The latest research is taken into account, and all is explained in language readily understood by the...

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Main Author: Jeffries, Joel, J.
Other Authors: Plummer, E., Seeman, Mary, V., Thornton, J. F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1990.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Heritage.
Subjects:
Schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PART ONE: BASIC INFORMATION
  • 1 What is schizophrenia?
  • 2 Inpatient treatment
  • 3 Outpatient treatment
  • 4 Medications
  • 5 How relatives can help
  • 6 Outcome
  • 7 Support for relatives
  • 8 Work and school
  • 9 The future
  • PART TWO: PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
  • 10 A mother's account
  • 11 A father's account
  • 12 I am a schizophrenic
  • 13 A schizophrenic's story
  • 14 A mother's point of view
  • 15 The doctor's dilemma
  • APPENDIX I: Agencies and services
  • APPENDIX II: Self-help groups
  • APPENDIX III: Neuroleptics
  • SUGGESTED READING
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • V
  • W.

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