Schizophrenia & Schizoaffective Disorder
Date: 12 November 2010
Duration: One Day
Duration: 10am-4.30pm
Held at: ROCC, Fairways House, Mount Pleasant Road, Southampton, SO14 0QB
Suitable for: This one day course is ideal for professionals, particularly those who are in regular supportive roles of clients with Schizophrenia. This course is aimed at Primary Care Trust workers, social workers, mental health nurses, hospital staff and students. This course is equally ideal for voluntary sector groups such as advocacy and citizen advice workers, and counselling staff, who may work alongside clients experiencing schizophrenic symptoms. Suitable for service users and carers.
Course Aims and Objectives
To raise awareness and provide factual evidence about schizophrenia, whilst dispelling myths surrounding these particular diagnoses. To also provide extensive insight into how people are affected by this psychiatric disorder which affects the coherence of the personality, through research materials and personal insights. This course will cover:
- What is schizophrenia? What is the difference between schizophrenia and schizo-affective disorder?
- Statistics
- Signs and symptoms
- Test/diagnoses available
- Different types of schizophrenia
- Causes/risk factors
- Separating myths from facts
- Hallucinations and the varied types experienced
- Treatments currently available
- Side affects of treatments
- Media representation of schizophrenia