The findings indicate there is no safe level of alcohol
use for people with schizophrenia, suggesting that clinicians should ask patients with schizophrenia about alcohol use or misuse and advise them about risks.
«Childhood trauma link offers treatment
hope for people with schizophrenia: People with schizophrenia may now benefit from more effective, tailored treatments and greater self - empowerment, thanks to research establishing a link between childhood trauma and some of schizophrenia's most common symptoms..»
But the subsequent, expansive closure of mental health facilities, fragmentation of outpatient health care services and growing difficulties in finding housing (increasing homelessness and incarceration rates) and
support for persons with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses have adversely impacted longevity.
«We know that cognitive impairment can be
devastating for people with schizophrenia and there is a push to look at solutions, including medication options, brain training and brain stimulation techniques,» said lead author Gagan Fervaha, a researcher in the Complex Mental Illness program at CAMH and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.
There is evidence that nurses can competently deliver cognitive behavioural interventions
for people with schizophrenia.1 — 2 Turkington et al found that overall symptoms improved after brief cognitive behavioural therapy delivered by Community Psychiatric Nurses, although contrary to previous studies, 3 psychotic symptoms were not reduced.
Music therapy
for people with schizophrenia and schizophrenia - like disorders.