Browsing by Subject "Schizophrenia"

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    Comorbidities among Four Major Clinical Disorders
    (2016) Himelstein, Robyn; Wang, Shu-wen
    The current investigation provides a substantive overview of the epidemiology and etiological models of four comorbidities involving substance use disorders, depression, and schizophrenia. I first describe the symptoms and prevalence rates of depression and schizophrenia and the incidence of smoking and alcohol use. I then discuss the comorbidities of depression and smoking, depression and alcohol, schizophrenia and smoking, and schizophrenia and alcohol. I subsequently describe the effect of the comorbidities on the prognosis of depression and schizophrenia and treatment difficulties regarding these combined disorders. I close by offering implications and recommendations for treatment and prevention of the four comorbidities.
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    Culturally-Competent Schizophrenia Treatment: A multimodal synthesis of developing a culturally-competent treatment for schizophrenia in urban settings
    (2018) Kopelowicz, Ryan Harrison; Wang, Shu-wen; Gordon, Elizabeth
    Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that is comprised of multiple types of symptoms and is recognized as one of ten most affecting mental disorders in the world disorders affecting nearly .7% of the world population. Due to forces of globalization and mass migration of persons from the Global South to North American and Western-European countries, there must be a reconsideration of how treatment for this prevalent disorder to attain a culturally-competent treatment guideline accepted by the international psychiatric community. The first chapter is an assessment of the criteria that defines schizophrenia and the prevalence and incidence rates that require for there to be a focus on urban residential zones. The second chapter looks at the cultural views and various expressions of schizophrenia, and looking at what the potential risk factors are. The final chapter assesses how treatment has been performed thus far and then trying to synthesis potential guidelines that would promote optimal culturally-competent treatment.