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Culturally Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Review

Society of Clinical Psychology

One such intervention is the 2021, Clinician Guide for Culturally Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Family-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Approach by Amy Weisman de Mamani, Merranda McLaughlin, Olivia Altamirano, Daisy Lopez, and Salman Shaheen Ahmad 5. empathy) that lead to positive treatment outcomes for patients with schizophrenia.

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Choosing between antipsychotics to reduce the risk of breast cancer in women with schizophrenia

The Social Care Elf

Peter Knapp and Suzy Ker review a recent study from Finland, which suggests that women with schizophrenia who take prolactin-increasing antipsychotics for at least five years, have an increased risk of developing breast cancer.

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Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis with DSM5-TR Changes

Counselor Toolbox podcast

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction to schizophrenia spectrum disorders 04:00 Types of delusions 08:50 Hallucinations 10:30 Disorganized thinking 12:45 Abnormal motor behavior 15:10 Negative symptoms in schizophrenia 17:30 Schizophrenia, brief psychotic disorder schizophreniform 21:55 Delusional Disorder 22:40 Differential diagnosis 31:05 Associated features (..)

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Hallucinations & the Mental Health Act

The Masked AMHP

As Sacks says: “In the popular imagination hallucinatory voices are almost synonymous with schizophrenia – a great misconception, for most people who do hear voices are not schizophrenic.” It contains a wide range of accounts of different medical conditions that can produce hallucinations or hallucinatory experiences. In fact,

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Into the DSM - Schizophrenia

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker Exam

Schizophrenia will doubtless come up for social workers employed in clinic settings. If there is a history of autism spectrum disorder or a communication disorder of childhood onset, a schizophrenia diagnosis is made only if prominent delusions or hallucinations are present for at least one month. Here are the criteria: A. Delusions 2.

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American Dreams: What’s It Like To Be An MQ Research Fellow In The USA?

MQ Mental Health

Given known areas of overlap in risk for autism and schizophrenia, I wondered whether periconceptional folic acid might also confer protection against schizophrenia risk.

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Bipolar or Any Mental Illness Is Not Your Fault

Nnatasha Tracy

Schizophrenia is not your fault. Bipolar disorder is not your fault. Depression is not your fault. You did nothing to deserve a mental illness. You are a good person and your being sick does not affect that. Mental illness landed on you and started eating away at your brain. It could have happened to anyone. You had nothing to do with it.