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Improving the treatment of schizophrenia in real world mental health services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2011

Mirella Ruggeri  and
Michele Tansella
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Over the past decades, the therapeutic goal for schizophrenia has become more and more ambitious, shifting from that of controlling violent episodes to aim of ameliorating patients' symptoms, to the extent that individuals with schizophrenia can achieve a relative degree of social and relational remission. Indeed, thanks to more recent pharmacological and psychosocial forms of intervention, once pessimistic attitudes toward long-term schizophrenia outcomes are transforming gradually into guarded optimism. Evidence of the efficacy of various forms of treatment now make it possible for researchers and clinicians to consider both the remission of severe symptoms for long periods of time and good social functioning potential goals.

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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 249 - 253
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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