Schizoaffective disorders : international perspectives on understanding, intervention and rehabilitation / Kam-shing Yip, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yip, Kam-Shing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schizoaffective disorders.

Affective disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite related controversies and argument, schizoaffective disorder is a crucial mental illness that demands attention and study from both scholars and clinicians. However, most of these discussions are merely debates focused on diagnosis, etiology and genetics of persons with schizoaffective persons. Although there is a long awareness of the uniqueness of schizoaffective disorder, comparing the rich theoretical underpinnings in schizophrenia and mood disorders, the studies of schizoaffective disorder are thin and insufficient. After a long history of conceptual development, these two groups of mental illness are profoundly studied, explained and articulated by biochemical, psychodynamic, cognitive, existential, phenomenological, sociological, cultural and humanistic perspectives. In each perspective, there are numerous accounts, and research in describing persons with schizophrenia or mood disorder. Schizoaffective disorder is increasingly common in various countries around the world; this book tries to capture the situation in defining, understanding, intervening and rehabilitating cliens with schizoaffective disorders in various countries, in particular in Europe and North America, Asia and Australia.

Contents:

""SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDERS: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON UNDERSTANDING, INTERVENTION AND REHABILITATION ""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""PREFACE ""; ""CONTROVERSIES AND DIFFICULTIES IN THEORETICAL UNDERPINNING OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDERS ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""INITIAL CONCEPTUTALIZATION OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDERS ""; ""CONCEPUTALIZATION OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER FROM 1950 TO 1980""; ""CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER AFTER 1980 ""; ""IMPLICATIONS TO UNDERSTANDING, TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION TO PERSONS WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER ""

""A REVIEW OF LITERATURE IN SCI LITERATURES """"CONCLUSION ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS, RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY OF PERSONS WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER:RELATED THEORIES AND CONCEPTUAL UNDERPINNINGS ""; ""INTRODUCTION: FROM MEDICAL CONTROVERSIES TO PERSONAL EXPERIENCES ""; ""ETIOLOGY VS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE ""; ""THE CASE: A RIGHTEOUS MAN WHO WANTS TO LIBERATE THE OPPRESSED ""; ""THE EXPERIENCES OF SYMPTOMS IN PERSONS WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER: A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL THEORETICAL ARTICULATION ""; ""RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE OF PERSONS WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDERS""

""CONCLUSION: RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE WITH CLIENTS� OWN EXPERIENCE """"REFERENCES ""; ""SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA WITH- OR WITHOUT AFFECTIVE SYNDROME: A COMPARATIVE CLINICAL, NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR-GENETIC STUDY ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""SUBJECTS AND METHODS ""; ""RESULTS ""; ""CONCLUSION ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""DIAGNOSTIC CONTROVERSIES IN SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""DIAGNOSTIC HISTORY IN RELATION TO PHARMACOLOGY""; ""THE INTERVENTION AND ULTIMATE RISE OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE""; ""UNRELIABILITY ""; ""PSYCHOSIS AS SEVERITY ""

""GENETICS """"BRAIN MAPPING ""; ""RESEARCH STRENGTHS AND PITALLS ""; ""CONCLUSION ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL DEFICITS IN SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""HISTORICAL CONSIDERATION ""; ""CONTEMPORARY FINDINGS ON NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER ""; ""RELATIONSHIP IN EVERYDAY FUNCTIONING ""; ""TREATMENT ISSUES ""; ""CONCLUSION ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""EGO FUNCTIONING, COGNITION, AND ILLNESS CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONS WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER: DISTINCTIVE FEATURES AND RESPONSE TO VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION ""; ""OVERVIEW ""

""THE SCHIZOAFFECTIVE CONUNDRUM: TWO DISORDERS OR ONE """"EGO FUNCTIONING IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER ""; ""VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND SCHIZOAFFECIVE DISORDER ""; ""THE CURRENT STUDY ""; ""CONCLUSIONS ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""BOREDOM, HALLUCINATION-PRONENESS AND HYPOHEDONIA IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""DEFINING BOREDOM ""; ""BOREDOM, ANHEDONIA AND HALLUCINATION-PRONES IN NON-CLINICAL SAMPLES ""; ""BOREDOM IN METHADONE PATIENTS ""; ""STUDY RATIONALE ""; ""METHOD ""; ""RESULT AND DISCUSSION ""; ""CONCLUSION ""

""REFERENCES ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60741-215-2

OCLC:

429917358