Schizophrenia rehabilitation

In summary, antipsychotic drugs have a significant impact on the acute resolution and the maintenance of remission of symptoms of schizophrenia, enabling focus on rehabilitation efforts directed at residual cognitive, social, and occupational disabilities. The... 

Schizophrenia was conceptualized as a behavior taught to a child by a schizophrenogenic parent. Patients were then isolated from their families for long-term hospital care. In recent years, the approach has been to effect social rehabilitation with active involvement of the family. We will first review evidence pertinent to earlier approaches and then discuss the more recent assertive case management model. 

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