Social work and the psychiatric nosology of schizophrenia.
Psychiatrists in public health centers tend to diagnose, evaluate, and treat schizophrenia using a biomedical model. The authors discuss the inadequacy of such a model for the care of chronically mentally ill persons and suggest that attention should be paid to the client's environmental context.
D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012947:Social Work; D014481:United States