Continuing day treatment programs promote recovery in schizophrenia: a case-based study.
Continuing day treatment programs focus on community stabilization through comprehensive individualized rehabilitation. They promote recovery through a variety of practical clinical therapeutic interventions. This empirically based report describes a continuing day treatment program's rehabilitation of four clients with schizophrenia, chronic type in a western New York mental health clinic who were in each of the specialty services: a two-phase program, a program for seniors, and a program for co-occurring substance dependence. Some particularly difficult psychiatric symptoms of schizophrenia were successfully treated in this continuing day treatment program. Each of these clients showed improvements in their symptoms and overall community adjustment that may well have been unobtainable with less intensive outpatient treatment.
Handa
Kamna
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Buffalo Psychiatric Center in Buffalo, New York, USA.
Grace
Jeffery
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Trigoboff
Eileen
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Olympia
Josie L
JL
Annalett
Diane
D
Watson
Thomas
T
Poulose
Mon C
MC
Muzaffar
Tufail
T
Noyes
Frank L
FL
Kabatt
Anne
A
Cushman
Sharon
S
Antonelli
Maryann
M
Baxter-Banks
Ginger
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Newcomer
David
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