Schizoaffective Disorders : International Perspectives on Understanding, Intervention and Rehabilitation.

Intro -- SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDERS: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON UNDERSTANDING, INTERVENTION AND REHABILITATION -- SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDERS: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON UNDERSTANDING, INTERVENTION AND REHABILITATION -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- REFERENCE -- Chapter 1: CONTROVERSIES AND DIFFICULTIES IN THEORETICAL UNDERPINNING OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDERS -- INTRODUCTION -- INITIAL CONCEPTUTALIZATION OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDERS -- CONCEPUTALIZATION OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER FROM 1950 TO 1980 -- Better Prognosis than Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis as a Different Entity of Mental Illness -- As a Variant of Schizophrenia with Similar Chronicity -- CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER AFTER 1980 -- As a Variant of Schizophrenia -- As a Variant of Affective Disorder -- As an Intermediate Entity between Schizophrenia and Affective Disorder -- As a Continuum of Functional Psychosis with Schizophrenia at One End and Affective Psychosis at the Other End of the Spectrum -- IMPLICATIONS TO UNDERSTANDING, TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION TO PERSONS WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER -- Challenges and Difficulties for Professionals -- Sufferings and Hardships for Persons with Schizoaffective Disorders -- A REVIEW OF LITERATURE IN SCI LITERATURES -- The Literature Archieve on Schizoaffective Disorders -- Findings: Trends and Concerns in the Studies of Schizoaffective Disorders -- Topic of Concern -- Position of Schizoaffective Disorder -- Country of Studies -- Discussion: Challenges and Controversies -- Increasing Concern vs Decreasing Discussion -- Amercian Stand vs International Position -- Medical Orienation vs Humanistic Concern -- Static Mental Symptoms vs Dynamic Manifestation -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCE.

Chapter 2: UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS, RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY OF PERSONS WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER: RELATED THEORIES AND CONCEPTUAL UNDERPINNINGS -- INTRODUCTION: FROM MEDICAL CONTROVERSIES TO PERSONAL EXPERIENCES -- ETIOLOGY VS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE -- Diagnosis vs Needs and Feeling -- Treatment vs Resilence and Recovery -- THE CASE: A RIGHTEOUS MAN WHO WANTS TO LIBERATE THE OPPRESSED -- THE EXPERIENCES OF SYMPTOMS IN PERSONS WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER: A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL THEORETICAL ARTICULATION -- Type 1: In Terms of Related Theories of Schizophrenia -- Type 2: In Terms of Related Theories of Depressive Disorder -- Type 3: In Terms of Related Theories in Bipolar Disorder -- Type 4: In Terms of Combinations of Theories from Schizophrenia, Depression and Bipolar Disorders -- RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE OF PERSONS WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDERS -- Subjective Experience in Facing Diagnosis and Symptoms -- Subjective Experiences in Treatment and Rehabilitation -- Subjective Experiences in Facing Others' Perception -- CONCLUSION: RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE WITH CLIENTS' OWN EXPERIENCE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA WITH- OR WITHOUT AFFECTIVE SYNDROME: A COMPARATIVE CLINICAL, NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR-GENETIC STUDY -- INTRODUCTION -- SUBJECTS AND METHODS -- Patients -- Controls -- Clinical Variables -- Personality Questionnaires -- Cognitive Assessment -- Ethical Requirements -- Genotyping -- Statistical Procedures -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: DIAGNOSTIC CONTROVERSIES IN SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER -- THE INTERVENTION AND ULTIMATE RISE OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE -- UNRELIABILITY -- PSYCHOSIS AS SEVERITY -- GENETICS -- BRAIN MAPPING -- RESEARCH STRENGTHS AND PITALLS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL DEFICITS IN SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER -- INTRODUCTION.

HISTORICAL CONSIDERATION -- Origin and Controversies of the Construct of Schizoaffective Disorder -- Historical Considerations of Schizophrenia as a Neurocognitive Disorder -- CONTEMPORARY FINDINGS ON NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER -- Neuropsychological Deficits in Schizoaffective Disorder and Schizophrenia -- Severity and Prevalence of Neuropsychological Deficits -- Specific Neuropsychological Abilities and their Measurement -- Attention -- Working Memory -- Auditory and Visual Episodic Declarative Learning and Memory -- Psychomotor Speed -- Executive functions -- Course of Neuropsychological Deficits in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder -- Premorbid and Peri-onset Cognitive Deficits -- Long-term Course of Cognitive Deficits -- RELATIONSHIP IN EVERYDAY FUNCTIONING -- TREATMENT ISSUES -- Effects of Psychotropic Medications -- Neuropsychological Deficits as a Target of Treatment -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: EGO FUNCTIONING, COGNITION, AND ILLNESS CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONS WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER: DISTINCTIVE FEATURES AND RESPONSE TO VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION -- OVERVIEW -- THE SCHIZOAFFECTIVE CONUNDRUM: TWO DISORDERS OR ONE -- Related Debates -- Genetics of Schizoaffective Disorder -- Neurocognition in Psychosis -- Neuroleptics and Neurocognition -- Cognition in Schizoaffective Disorder -- EGO FUNCTIONING IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER -- VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND SCHIZOAFFECIVE DISORDER -- THE CURRENT STUDY -- Procedures and Results -- Sample Characteristics -- Clinical Features -- Community Functioning -- Cognitive Functioning -- Ego Functioning -- Work Rehabilitation -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7: BOREDOM, HALLUCINATION-PRONENESS AND HYPOHEDONIA IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING BOREDOM.

BOREDOM, ANHEDONIA AND HALLUCINATION-PRONES IN NON-CLINICAL SAMPLES -- Anhedonia -- Hallucination-Proneness -- BOREDOM IN METHADONE PATIENTS -- STUDY RATIONALE -- METHOD -- Participants -- Materials and Procedure -- Launay-Slade Hallucination Scale (LSHS -- Launay and Slade, 1981 -- Slade and Bentall, 1988) -- The Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Questionnaire- Modidfied (SHPQ-M -- Snaith and Hamilton, 1995) -- The State Boredom Measure (SBM -- Todman, 2004) -- RESULT AND DISCUSSION -- Hallucination Proneness -- History of Hearing Voices and Voices during the Last 14 Days -- Depressive Feelings during the Last 14 Days -- History of Depression -- Anhedonia (SHPQ-M) -- Current Substance Abuse -- Schizoaffective Disorder vs. Schizophrenia -- Staff ratings of Negative Symptoms, and Overall Severity -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1: THE STATE BOREDOM MEASURE (TODMAN, 2004) -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8: SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER IN CHINA: CONTROVERSIES AND REALITY IN CHINA -- INTRODUCTION: MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE IN CHINA -- SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER IN CHINA -- Prevalence in China -- Diagnosis and Etiology of Schizoaffective Disorder in China -- CASE ILLUSTRATION -- Mr. W's Onset, Manifestation, Struggle, Resilience and Recovery from Schizoaffective Disorder -- Client's Family Background and Relationship with His Parents -- Client's Courtship and Marriage -- Client's Narration of his First Courtship -- Clients' Self Narration of his First Marriage and Divorce -- Client's Self Narration of Second Marriage and Divorce -- Client's Onset and Relapse of Schizoaffective Disorder -- Client's Self Narration of Experience of the First Onset -- Client's Self Narration of Experience of Relapse -- The First Relapse -- The Second and Third Relapse -- The Fourth Relapse -- Client's Treatment and Recovery -- Client's self Narration of Experience of First Treatment.

Client's Self Narration of his Recovery -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9: MANAGING THE SUICIDAL RISK IN PREGNANT SCHIZOAFFECTIVE WOMEN -- UNNATURAL DEATHS AMONG THE SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PATIENT POPULATION -- MATERNAL DEATHS DUE TO SUICIDE. NOT ONLY A POSTPARTUM DRAMA -- THE SPECIFICITY OF SUICIDAL SPECTRUM INPREGNANT WOMEN WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER -- THE USE OF ANTISUICIDAL DRUGS IN PREGNANCY -- Pregnancy, Mental Illness, and Psychotropic Drugs -- The Relationship between Suicidality, Pregnancy, and Psychopharmacological Regimens -- Lithium -- Lithium use during Pregnancy: General Considerations -- Lithium Use during Late Pregnancy -- SSRIs and Duloxetine -- SSRIs and Duloxetine Use during Pregnancy: General Consideration -- SSRIs and Duloxetine Use during Early Pregnancy -- SSRIs and Duloxetine Use during Late Pregnancy -- Clozapine -- Clozapine Use during Pregnancy: General Consideration -- Clozapine Use during Early Pregnancy -- Clozapine Use during Late Pregnancy -- THE USE OF ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY DURING PREGNANCY -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Blank Page.

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