Schizophrenia Treatment at Prevail Recovery Center

Schizophrenia is a severe mental health disorder characterized by distortions in thinking, perception, emotions, language, sense of self, and behavior. This chronic condition can be profoundly disabling and may affect all areas of life, as mental health professionals say.

Positive Symptoms: These include auditory hallucinations (hearing voices), delusions (false beliefs), and severely disorganized thinking and behaviors that are easy to recognize but hard to treat.

Negative Symptoms: This refers to elements that are “taken away” from the individual, such as reduced ability to function normally. For example, the person may neglect personal hygiene or appear to lack emotion (doesn’t make eye contact, doesn’t change facial expressions).

Cognitive Symptoms involve problems with attention, certain types of memory, and the functions that enable us to plan and organize. Mental symptoms can make it challenging to live an everyday life and are often the most disabling in leading a self-sufficient life.

1. Medication Management: Antipsychotic medications are the cornerstone of schizophrenia treatment. These drugs don’t cure schizophrenia but are effective in managing the psychotic symptoms part of the disease. At Prevail Recovery Center, our medical team works closely with each client to find the most effective antipsychotic medication with the least severe side effects ever, often requiring careful and comprehensive review and sometimes prolonged testing.
2. Psychotherapy: Individual therapy can help normalize thought patterns and reduce symptoms of bipolar disorder. Behavioral techniques, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), are used to control symptoms of personality disorders and help deal with the everyday challenges of the disorder, such as difficulties with communication, self-care, work, and establishing and maintaining relationships.
3. Group Therapy: Participating in therapy groups can provide support and an added layer of education on drug therapy for individuals coping with psychotic disorders and schizophrenia. It also helps them to realize they are not alone in their mental health professional their mental illness either, and others face similar challenges.
4. Family Therapy: Schizophrenia affects the whole family, not just the individual. Family therapy can provide support and education about mental disorders to families, helping them to understand the mental disorder much better, improve communication and problem-solving skills, and increase their capacity to support their loved ones.
5. Social Skills Training: This focuses on improving communication and social interactions and is vital for those dealing with people with schizophrenia and people with schizophrenia and the negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, which can impair their social skills.
6. Supported Employment: Helping individuals with schizophrenia find and keep jobs can be an essential part of recovery from mental health illness and can increase their independence and confidence.
7. Lifestyle and Integrative Health Approaches: Encouraging healthy living through exercise, diet, and stress management techniques can help manage and reduce symptoms. Some may also benefit from supplements, cognitive behavioral therapy, and other integrative approaches under careful medical supervision