Treatments for Schizophrenia and Other Severe Mental Disorders

In the case study of Cathy, what new antipsychotic drug was she prescribed in 1994 that resulted in her mind becoming 'much clearer'?

What was the approximate number of hospitalized patients in state mental institutions on any given day in 1955?

What is the social breakdown syndrome, which often developed as a result of institutionalization?

What is the fundamental premise of milieu therapy, a humanistic approach to institutional treatment?

What was the estimated fatality rate of lobotomies, according to later, more rigorous studies?

In the study by Gordon Paul and Robert Lentz, what percentage of patients with chronic schizophrenia were released from a token economy program, as compared to 45 percent from custodial care?

Conventional antipsychotic drugs, such as Thorazine, are also known as neuroleptic drugs because they often produce which kind of effects?

What percentage of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia experience a reduction in symptoms when treated with antipsychotic drugs?

The most common extrapyramidal effects of conventional antipsychotics, which closely resemble the features of Parkinson's disease, are caused by the drugs' reduction of dopamine activity in which parts of the brain?

Tardive dyskinesia, a movement disorder that does not usually unfold until after a person has taken conventional antipsychotics for more than a year, is believed to affect what percentage of people who take these drugs for an extended time?

What is the defining biological operational difference between atypical antipsychotics and conventional antipsychotics?

What is agranulocytosis, and what is its associated risk percentage for people taking the atypical antipsychotic drug clozapine?

According to research on racial disparities, which groups are significantly less likely than white Americans to be prescribed atypical antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia?

What is the primary goal of new-wave cognitive-behavioral therapies, like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, when treating clients with schizophrenia?

Studies indicate that rehospitalizations decrease by what percentage among clients with schizophrenia treated with cognitive-behavioral therapy?

What is a common characteristic of families high in 'expressed emotion' that increases the relapse rate for individuals recovering from schizophrenia?

What major legislative act in 1963 ordered that patients with psychological disorders be released and treated in their communities, leading to the policy of deinstitutionalization?

A key feature of effective community care, a halfway house is a type of supervised residence that is usually run with a philosophy based on which therapeutic approach?

What is a sheltered workshop in the context of community care for severe mental disorders?

In any given year, what percentage of all people with schizophrenia and other severe mental disorders receive no treatment at all?

What is the primary role of a case manager in community treatment for schizophrenia?

According to Figure 15-2, which presents data on where people with schizophrenia live, what percentage reside in totally unsupervised settings?

Approximately what portion of the homeless population in the United States is estimated to have a severe mental disorder, commonly schizophrenia?

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), a powerful lobbying force for better community treatment, was founded in 1979 and has expanded from 300 members to how many members today?

What is the average length of time between the first appearance of psychotic symptoms and the initiation of treatment, according to the 'Between the Lines' box?

Before the 1950s, the primary goals of public mental hospitals for patients with schizophrenia were largely custodial. What did these goals primarily consist of?

Who was the pioneer of milieu therapy, converting a hospital ward into a 'therapeutic community' in 1953?

What type of psychosurgery, developed by Walter Freeman, involved inserting a needle into the brain through the eye socket to destroy brain tissue?

What is the primary limitation of many token economy studies that critics have pointed out?

Antipsychotic drugs are believed to reduce psychotic symptoms primarily by blocking the excessive activity of which neurotransmitter at its D-2 receptors?

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome, a severe and potentially fatal reaction to conventional antipsychotic drugs, occurs in as many as what percentage of patients?

Which of the following is considered a major benefit of atypical antipsychotic drugs compared to conventional ones?

According to the 'PsychWatch' box on atypical antipsychotics, what is one identified reason for the racial disparity in prescriptions?

Before the discovery of antipsychotic drugs, therapists like Frieda Fromm-Reichmann believed the first task of psychotherapy with a person with schizophrenia was what?

Which therapeutic approach often includes helping clients learn to monitor which events trigger the voices in their heads and to reattribute their hallucinations to their illness?

In the study by Hogarty and colleagues comparing post-hospitalization treatments, what was the rehospitalization rate for patients who did not continue medication?

The policy of deinstitutionalization resulted in the number of patients in state institutions dropping from nearly 600,000 in 1955 to what approximate number today?

What is aftercare in the context of community mental health treatment?

Day centers or day hospitals are a form of partial hospitalization that originated in which city in 1933 due to a shortage of hospital beds?

According to Figure 15-2, what percentage of people with schizophrenia live in jails and prisons?

What is the primary economic reason cited for the shortage of community treatment services for people with severe disorders?

What percentage of inmates in jails and prisons in the United States have rates of schizophrenia that are four times higher than that of the general public?

In the 'Between the Lines' box about perinatal impact, babies born to mothers who take antipsychotics during the third trimester may display what kind of symptoms?

What does the term 'deinstitutionalization' refer to?

Who received the 1949 Nobel Prize for their work on the prefrontal lobotomy?

The 'revolving door' syndrome in community mental health refers to what phenomenon?

Which institution is described in the text as now being 'de facto the largest mental institution in the United States' due to the number of inmates requiring daily mental health services?

What did early psychotherapists like Frieda Fromm-Reichmann report happened after they won the trust of their patients with schizophrenia?

According to the chapter, what is the primary lesson that therapists have learned from the history of treating schizophrenia?

An alternative work opportunity for individuals with severe psychological disorders where vocational agencies help them find competitive jobs in the community and provide ongoing support is called what?