By: Haydee Cantu and Jennifer Nichols - the UIC Department of ...

Treatment Continued• Family therapy• Educate more about the nature of the illness (cause, prognosis, treatments)• Learn how to improve communication with their schizophrenic relative• Minimize criticism• Minimize “high expressed emotion”• Results: improvements in relapse rates and global functioning; moreeffective in youth with greater premorbid functional deficits• Cognitive rehab• Remediate the abnormal thought process• Improve information processing skills (attention, memory, vigilance)• Changing the thoughts, responses to the thoughts by incorporating copingstrategies• Results: improved symptom management and medication compliance• Psychosocial Rehab• Day treatment programs, assertive community treatment programs, etc tohelp integrate the patient back into his/her community• Peer support• Companionship• Vocational interventions• Interpersonal skills training - Results: improved role functioning, selfefficacy,patient satisfaction. Targets social skills deficits, decreases stress.Modified in youth to account for developmental level.