“Can counseling help with schizophrenia?”
My friend was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Can counseling help with schizophrenia?
6 Answers
Danielle Cato
Counselor/Therapist
Counseling can be helpful for individuals with schizophrenia by providing coping strategies, promoting medication adherence, offering psychoeducation, providing emotional support, and facilitating social skills training.
Yes, counseling is not a cure, but it helps for the patient and friends, family and others closely involved with the person diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Yes, therapy with the appropriate medication can help your friend become stable and live a fulfilling life.
Schizophrenia is typically recognized as a disintegration of thought processes and emotional responsiveness. It’s often associated with psychoses such as hallucinations and delusions. Schizophrenia may affect how a person functions in one or many aspects of life, depending on which symptoms are present and how severe they are. Working with a therapist or counselor can help people with schizophrenia improve their social skills, develop higher self-esteem, and learn more about mental health issues that may accompany the condition.
See this link..
https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/issues/schizophrenia
https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/issues/schizophrenia
Treatment for schizophrenia often requires an intensive level of care with multiple providers all involved, such as a psychiatrist, therapist and case manager, to monitor the client's multiple areas of functioning. Therapy will also be helpful when the client is motivated and committed for change.
