Schizophrenia Over Time: Experiences Living With the Illness
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3- to 4-page paper, supported by at least 3–4 scholarly resources (including both required and additional resources), in which you address the following:
Compare Saks’s and McGough’s experiences with schizophrenia, specifically referencing the positive and negative symptoms they each experienced.
Explain how you would use the Clinician Rated Dimensions of Psychosis Symptom Severity measure and the WHODAS to help confirm your diagnosis.
Identify in what ways their cases are typical or atypical of the illness in terms of onset, associated features, development, and course. Support your response with references to scholarly resources.
Explain how you would plan treatment and individualize it for these two individuals. Support your response with references to scholarly resources. In your explanation, consider the following questions:
What are the long-term challenges for someone living with the illness?
What social, family, vocational, and medical supports are needed for long-term stabilization?
How might treatment look similar or different for Saks and McGough, given they have the same diagnosis?
Briefly explain how race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, or other identity characteristics may influence an individual’s experience with schizophrenia.
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Experiences Living with Schizophrenia
Comparing Sak’s and McGough’s experiences with Schizophrenia
McGough has lived with Schizophrenia for four years now, and she has been hospitalized severally due to her condition. Positive symptoms that McGough experienced include severe hallucinations where she could see a clown that followed her everywhere and other times she saw spiders both small and giant (TED, 2017). She describes the giant spider that she saw as having a yellow body and black legs.
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