Schizophrenia

Term Paper # 100309

Medical and Health > Medical Studies
Psychology > Disorders
Psychology > Therapies

Schizophrenia

An analysis of the symptoms, treatment and treatment outcomes of schizophrenia.

1,194 words () | 4 sources | APA | 2007 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the treatment and symptoms of schizophrenia. The paper describes the classification of schizophrenia and how it presents itself. It looks at different theories about the biological causes of the disorder. It then looks at the issues of treatment that exist today and describes the possible outcome of treatment. The paper specifically focuses on the use of pharmacotherapies.

From the Paper:

"Most of the sufferers in the United States receive lifelong government subsidies in the form of Social Security disability, Medicaid, and Medicare payments. While the typical chronic patient has usually had between six and thirty hospitalizations in his or her life, lasting from one to four weeks, both the number and the duration of hospitalizations has been declining steadily because the nation has been limited inpatient care for severely mentally ill patients (Meltzer, 1999, p. 4). More and more physicians have been using atypical antipsychotics to treat schizophrenia (Meltzer, 1999, p. 7)."

Sample of Sources Used:

Keefe, R. & Harvey, P.D. (1994). Understanding schizophrenia: A guide to the new research on causes and treatment. New York: The Free Press.
Lehman, A.F. & Steinwachs, D.M. (1998). At issue: Translating research into practice. Schizophrenia Bulletin 24(1), 1-10.
Meltzer, H.Y. (1999). Outcome in schizophrenia: Beyond symptom reduction. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 60(3), 3-7.
Stefan, M., Travis, M, & Murray, R. (2002). An atlas of schizophrenia. New York: Parthenon Publishing.