Schizophrenia Case Study Essay

This essay will focus on a case study of a patient with Schizophrenia, whom I cared for during my recent clinical specialist placement in a medium secure unit. The patient personal and psychiatric history would be given. The patient current psychological, sociological and physiological needs will be looked at by using published therapeutic approaches. In this case study a demonstration of how the therapeutic approaches chosen provide or guidance of the nursing care provided in the assessment of needs, identification of goals/aims, therapeutic nursing intervention and clinical review of the patient progress will be discussed. The therapeutic efficacy of the current environment where the care is being provided for the patient will be analysed
The cognitive model lay emphasises on posits that people interpret their thoughts, which in turn are their main determinants of behaviour (Tyrer and Steinberg 1998). According to (Kingdon and Turkington 1993; Chadwick et al. 1996) the cognitive model is use to manage distressing delusions, hallucinations and feelings of paranoia that people may experience in the course of a mental
According to NICE (2004) activity scheduling has proved to be an effective cognitive behavioural technique in treating depressive symptoms. Judy was also encouraged to utilise the ward based gym for gentle exercise to relieve physical symptoms, rebuild social confidence and alleviate her level of anxiety and depression. It was identified by the Multi disciplinary team on the ward that to break Judy’s social barrier there is need to educate her carers more about Judy’s illness by so doing creating awareness among them for supportive way in caring for