Hearing voices has been stereotyped as something that only occurs in unstable people. What most people do not realize is that hearing voices is actually more common than they might think and can happen to any of us. According to studies, an estimated four percent of adults are reported to hear voices, and of those, […]
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Frequency of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders occur every community regardless of ethnicity, class, religion, race or socioeconomics. Rates of schizophrenia are generally similar worldwide – about .5% to 1.0% of the population. In the United States, that comes out to 7.2 people per 1,000, which means that a city with a population of […]
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Schizophrenia is the most common psychotic disorder, but it is only one of 12. When schizophrenia is diagnosed. It is possible that there will be one of the four subtypes of the disorder will be listed on the diagnosis. Catatonic Schizophrenia Paranoid Schizophrenia Disorganized Schizophrenia Undifferentiated Schizophrenia Residual Schizophrenia Regardless of which subtype the person is diagnosed with, […]
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The goal is to facilitate early identification of those experiencing extreme states in order to decrease the duration for untreated symptoms and reduce disruption to the young person’s psychosocial development through a collaborative, recovery oriented intervention.