Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia: Helping Your Loved One Get the Most Out of Life

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Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia: Helping Your Loved One Get the Most Out of Life Pub. Date: 8/15/2006 Publisher: Guilford Publications, Inc.

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Do people with schizophrenia ever get better? With the vast majority of those with the disorder dependent on their families for care, close relatives often grapple with that question. The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia inspires hope. Authors Kim T. Mueser, PhD, and Susan Gingerich, MSW, walk readers through a range of treatment and support options that can lead to a better life for the entire family. Individual chapters highlight special issues for parents, siblings, and partners, while other sections provide tips for dealing with problems including cognitive difficulties, substance abuse, and psychosis. Families learn to help their loved ones manage day-to-day tasks, develop friendships, and set personal life goals. Like no other book, this powerful, practical resource helps families stay connected to the individual behind the disorder so they can work together toward recovery.

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Reviewer: Nicholas Greco IV, MS, BCETS, CATSM(Abbott Laboratories)
Description: This is one of the most thorough, well written, and meaningful books ever written for family members and friends of those with schizophrenia. This book contains more than just basic information, yet maintains a readable and compassionate stance.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide family and friends with the information to effectively play a well informed role in the care of their loved one. Families are demanding more than just the ability to cope with their loved one's illness, and this book answers those demands with information essential for the new role that family and friends are embracing. This book is a most powerful tool that enables an active presence of family and friends that are so essential in the lives of our patients.
Audience: First and foremost, family and friends will benefit tremendously from this book. In addition, it is essential reading for graduate students in the mental health professions as it provides a different perspective which will aid in their learning and eventual growth as mental healthcare providers. The authors are well known members of the mental health community. This book is one of Dr. Mueser's finest contributions to the field.
Features: The authors do a wonderful job of explaining schizophrenia, thus providing the needed background to explore such topics as special issues for family members and relapse prevention. The section on relapse prevention is essential to ultimately creating the supportive environment. As persons with schizophrenia do have unique issues, part five is devoted to specific problems such as the psychotic (positive) symptoms, the negative symptoms, cognitive problems, anxiety, depression, anger and violence, and alcohol and substance abuse. As many clinical studies have begun to assess the quality of life, the authors provide a lengthy and appropriate discussion on these issues. The affordable price makes the book accessible to the general public.
Assessment: This is one of the most valuable books that any concerned family member or friend of a person with schizophrenia will read. If one is looking for a complete, unbiased, and informative family guide on schizophrenia, look no further!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781593851804
Publisher: Guilford Publications, Inc.
Publication date: 8/15/2006
Pages: 480
Sales rank: 422,942
Product dimensions: 6.90 (w) x 9.80 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Kim T. Mueser, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and professor in psychiatry and community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. His clinical and research interests include the treatment of schizophrenia and posttraumatic stress disorder and the diagnosis and treatment of people with multiple disorders. He has published extensively and lectures often on the topic of psychiatric rehabilitation. He lives in Henniker, New Hampshire.

Susan Gingerich, MSW, is a clinician and consultant with more than 20 years of clinical experience working with people who have severe mental illness and their families. She has an independent practice in Philadelphia.

Dr. Mueser and Ms. Gingerich have coauthored four books.

Pt. I	An overview of schizophrenia
1	Schizophrenia : the basics	3
2	Diagnosis and symptoms	17
3	Creating a vision of recovery	32
4	Comprehensive treatment of schizophrenia	48
5	Community resources	59
Pt. II	Special issues for family members
6	Parents	91
7	Siblings	104
8	Spouses and partners	113
9	Parenting and children	124
Pt. III	Preventing relapses
10	Medication	145
11	Managing stress	178
12	Developing a relapse prevention plan	189
13	Responding to crises	206
Pt. IV	Creating a supportive environment
14	Communicating effectively	223
15	Solving problems	234
16	Establishing household rules and sharing responsibilities	242
Pt. V	Coping with specific problems
17	Psychotic symptoms	259
18	Negative symptoms	279
19	Cognitive difficulties	287
20	Anxiety	304
21	Depression	317
22	Alcohol and drug abuse	331
23	Anger and violence	358
24	Lack of insight	371
Pt. VI	Improving quality of life
25	Social relationships	381
26	Work and school	394
27	Independent living and self-care skills	408
28	Leisure and recreation	421
29	Dealing with stigma	431
30	Planning for the future	441

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