Tag: psychoeducation
âYou Are Completely Screwedâ â A Firsthand Experience with Psychoeducation
Around me in the room I could see the different faces lit up by the big whiteboard raised above us. âThere are these symptoms...â The psychiatrist would talk for long periods of time, while the nurses would sit quiet, nodding. I became skeptical and thought: âYou are trying to talk me into something.â
Landmark Schizophrenia Study Recommends More Therapy
Results of a large government-funded study call into question current drug heavy approaches to treating people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The study, which the New York Times called âby far the most rigorous trial to date conducted in the United States,â found that patients who received smaller doses of antipsychotic drugs with individual talk therapy, family training, and support for employment and education had a greater reduction in symptoms as well as increases in quality of life, and participation in work and school than those receiving the current standard of care.