Psychosocial interventions for adults diagnosed with schizophrenia: a theoretical review of studies from 2010-2020

Abstract

Schizophrenia is one of the psychotic disorders, which includes a significant loss of a touch of reality. It is marked by various positive and negative symptoms. From time to time many researchers came up with different ways to treat this condition. Some of the common interventions are first-generation and second-generation antipsychotic drugs, psychosocial interventions like cognitive behavioral therapies, skills training, psychoeducation, token economy, and so on. However, in the last ten years, many new psychosocial interventions have proven to be successful in treating the condition of schizophrenia. These techniques are not in the mainstream and therefore they are not well known. This review study aimed to highlight some of these techniques so that they could also be used by the clinicians along with the medications. This study is a preliminary step to make these techniques mainstream. Some of these techniques were identified and are explained in this paper.