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Psychosocial Treatment
• Psychosocial programs and therapies, both in individual and
group format, help the patient manage symptoms and develop
recovery skills, such as setting and achieving goals. The choice
of specific strategies will depend on a patient's unique needs
and on what is available in the community.
• Medications are a complement to psychosocial treatment and
an equally important part of the overall care process.
Recommended Psychosocial Treatments and Programs:
• Coordinated Specialty Care: incorporates medication, talk therapy,
and other treatment into one program. Receiving these treatments
together can be more helpful than receiving each treatment
separately.
• Cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis: helps the patient learn
to monitor thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors and the
ways they contribute to symptoms.
• Psychoeducation: provides education about the disease and its
treatment as well as how to manage it.
• Supported employment services: provides job training, job
support, and mental health treatment to assist in finding and
keeping employment.
• Assertive community treatment: uses a team-based approach to
give individualized care outside of a formal clinical setting, including
home, workplace, or other locations in the community.
Suggested Programs and Therapies:
• Help and support for family members and those involved in care
• Training programs to help with attention, multi-tasking, memory,
and other areas of thought that are important to daily life, also
called cognitive remediation
• Social skills training programs
• Supportive psychotherapy
