Schizophrenia - Rehabilitation
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Computer-aided neurocognitive remediation as an enhancing strategy for schizophrenia rehabilitation.

7 Sep 2009 Cognitive dysfunction is a chronically disabling feature of schizophrenia, associated with limits in obtaining rehabilitation improvements. The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of intensive computer-aided cognitive remediation ... Read more...

A systematic review of the international published literature relating to quality of institutional care for people with longer term mental health problems.

5 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: A proportion of people with mental health problems require longer term care in a psychiatric or social care institution. However, there are no internationally agreed quality standards for institutional care and no method to assess common ... Read more...

Partnering with families: multiple family group psychoeducation for schizophrenia.

30 Jul 2009 Family psychoeducation (FPE) is one of six evidence-based practices endorsed by the Center for Mental Health Services for individuals suffering from chronic mental illnesses. Multiple family group psychoeducation (MFG) has been shown to be an ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Schizophrenia - Rehabilitation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Computer-aided neurocognitive remediation as an enhancing strategy for schizophrenia rehabilitation. 7 Sep 2009
• A systematic review of the international published literature relating to quality of institutional care for people with longer term mental health problems. 5 Sep 2009
• Partnering with families: multiple family group psychoeducation for schizophrenia. 30 Jul 2009
• Cognitive adaptation training for outpatients with schizophrenia. 30 Jul 2009
• Quality of life for patients with schizophrenia living in the community in Greece. 30 Jul 2009
• Poetry--recovery and beyond. 30 Jul 2009
• Knowledge about schizophrenia and attitudes towards people with schizophrenia in Greece. 29 Jun 2009
• Social relationships as a decisive factor in recovering from severe mental illness. 29 Jun 2009
• Scope of agency control: assertive community treatment teams' supervision of consumers. 29 Jun 2009
• The REACT study: cost-effectiveness analysis of assertive community treatment in north London. 29 Jun 2009
• Recovery from schizophrenia and the recovery model. 29 Jun 2009
• Psychosocial rehabilitation and quality of life for older adults with serious mental illness: recent findings and future research directions. 29 Jun 2009
• Does age matter? Effects of cognitive rehabilitation across the age span. 10 Jun 2009
• Is early intervention in psychosis cost-effective over the long term? 7 Jun 2009
• Unmet need for mental health care in schizophrenia: an overview of literature and new data from a first-admission study. 6 Jun 2009
• The role of leisure in the lives of psychotic patients: a qualitative study. 30 May 2009
• Schizophrenia, narrative and change: Andalusian care homes as novel sociocultural context. 30 May 2009
• The impact of a changed environment on arousal levels of patients in a secure extended rehabilitation facility. 30 May 2009
• Recovery as discovery. 23 May 2009
• Predictors of longitudinal changes in schizophrenia: the role of processing speed. 3 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Schizophrenia'

Definition: A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, HALLUCINATIONS, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.

Descriptor UI: D012559

Alternative terms: Schizophrenia; Schizophrenias; Dementia Praecox; Schizophrenic Disorders; Disorder, Schizophrenic; Disorders, Schizophrenic; Schizophrenic Disorder;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.700.750;

Technical Notes: general or unspecified; prefer specifics