Schizophrenia: intervention in public health institutes

Abstract

The first schizophrenia concepts contemplated unspecific definitions regarding the schizophrenic disorder. Only in 1980 Crow proposed the most well known classification concerning this disorder: the dycotomizationin subtypes I and II or positive/negative, with symptoms of the positive syndrome presenting as hallucinations and delirium, and of the negative syndrome presenting as emotional blunting and poverty of speech. Even though pharmacotherapy has presented advances in the treatment of this disease, psychotherapy is indicated to revert the social and interpersonal damages that this disorder causes. The aim of this study is to report a behavioral intervention, in a Psychosocial Attention Center, in a 19 year-old patient, with the use of Social Ability Training (SAT) as a possibility in schizophrenia treatment. This procedure contributed to reduce the disease stereotype for this young woman, since it amplified her social rapport and allowed for advances in the psychological, social and vocational spheres.