Living and Working with Schizophrenia : : Information and support for patients, and their families, friends, employers, and teachers /

Living and Working with Schizophrenia : : Information and support for patients, and their families, friends, employers, and teachers / / Joel Jeffries, E. Plummer, Mary Seeman, J. Thornton.

For the families of schizophrenics, fear, guilt, frustration, and despair can become part of daily life. Several years ago the authors of this volume established a program at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto to help the families of schizophrenics cope with the sometimes debilitating emo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
VerfasserIn:
Jeffries, Joel,
Plummer, E. ,
Seeman, Mary,
MitwirkendeR:
Gibson, Margaret,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1990
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (164 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART ONE: Basic Information
  • 1. What is schizophrenia?
  • 2. Inpatient treatment
  • 3. Outpatient treatment
  • 4. Medications
  • 5. How relatives can help
  • 6. Outcome
  • 7. Support for relatives
  • 8. Work and school
  • 9. The future
  • PART TWO: Personal accounts
  • 10. A mother’s account
  • 11. A father’s account
  • 12. I am a schizophrenic
  • 13. A schizophrenic’s story
  • 14. A mother’s point of view
  • 15. The doctor’s dilemma
  • Appendices
  • Suggested reading
  • Index

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