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01-04-2010 | Meeting abstract
Psychosocial interventions in a forensic department
Authors:
Maria Markopoulou, Olga Georgiadou, Iordana Dini, Keranio Tsiftsoglou, Konstantinos Bobotas
Published in:
Annals of General Psychiatry
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Special Issue 1/2010
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Excerpt
Schizophrenia often entails difficulties in social and occupational functioning. Frequently the approach followed in the hospital wards is mainly pharmacological and different from that of the community-based service which is mainly psychosocial. The accumulating evidence on the active role of the person in his or her recovery has had a profound impact on our understanding and interventions in relation to that severe mental illness especially when is accompanied with violent behavior. …