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Interventions for Schizophrenia----- An Emerging Mental Disorder

Deepika M

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that affects mainly young people. Abnormalities in brain causes the disease. Environmental and genetic factors play an important role for the spread of the disease. Symptoms include mood disorders, psychological stress and suicidal tendency. Patients affected with this disease (50%) commit suicides. Truly speaking, the disease has no prevention. Diagnosis of the disease can be made by the symptoms. Treatment includes antipsychotic medication which completely cures the disease in 20% of the patients. Cognitive behavioural therapy and rehabilitation centres are emerging now a days which are the hopeful interventions for the treatment of disease. Research is being carried out on the molecular and gentic factors and the major cause of the disease which is unknown till today. The present review focuses on the causes, symptoms, Diagnosis and majorly on the interventions (treatment methods) of Schizophrenia. The main objective is to establish more rehabilitation centres and make psycho-therapy cost effective.