Understanding and treating schizophrenia : contemporary research, theory, and practice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shean, Glenn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Haworth Clinical Practice Press, [2004]
Series:Haworth marriage and the family.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The development, evolution, epidemiology, and subsyndromes of schizophrenia
  • History of the concept of schizophrenia
  • Evolving diagnostic criteria
  • Epidemiology, course, and outcome
  • Language, thought, and syndromes of schizophrenia
  • Integrative models and levels of analysis
  • Vulnerability-stress models
  • Epistemology, general systems theory, and schizophrenia
  • Biological perspectives
  • Genetics and schizophrenia
  • Neurobiological models and research
  • Antipsychotic medications and neurochemical theories
  • Cognitive-behavioral, neurocognitive, and neurodevelopmental research
  • Neurocognitive and neurodevelopmental research
  • Cognitive-behavioral approaches and therapies
  • Psycodynamic, phenomenological, and family-based theories
  • Psychodynamic theories : the role of early experience
  • Phenomenology and schizophrenia
  • Schizophrenia and the family
  • Life in the community
  • Schizophrenia and life in the community