Schizophrenia…
- Program of Assertive Community Treatment
- A program of case management that takes a team approach in providing comprehensive, community-based psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation, and support to persons with serious and persistent mental illness
- The Recovery Model
- A concept of healing and transformation enabling a person with mental illness to live a meaningful life in the community while striving to achieve his or her full potential
- Research provides support for recovery as an obtainable objective for individuals with schizophrenia.
- Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (R A I S E)
- A program of case management that takes a team approach in providing comprehensive, community-based psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation, and support to persons with serious and persistent mental illness
- Psychopharmacology
- Antipsychotics
- Used to decrease agitation and psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
- Action
- Typicals: Dopaminergic blockers with various affinity for cholinergic, α-adrenergic, and histaminic receptors
- Atypicals: Weak dopamine antagonists; potent 5H T2A antagonists; also exhibit antagonism for cholinergic, histaminic, and adrenergic receptors
- Antipsychotics
