Posted: May 6th, 2015

schizophrenia

schizophrenia

Please answer these questions
1. Stigma in Australia in regard to Schizophrenia
2. What is the impact on children growing up (informed by theories of child development) with a parent who has Schizophrenia?
3. How might a person’s life be different if they had engaged in treatment in the prodromal phase of schizophrenia?
4. How would you treat a person who has schizophrenia if they had grown up in an Indigenous-European-Australian family? What questions would that raise for you in relation to their professional care?

References
Bland, R, Renouf, N and Tullgren, a (2009). Social work practice in mental health: An introduction, Allen & Unwin, Crow’s Nest, Australia.

Ben-Zeev, D, Young, MA and Corrigan, PW.(2010)., ‘DSM-V and the stigma of mental illness’, Journal of Mental Health, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 318 – 327, (online Ebscohost).

Sheldon, M 2001, ‘Psychiatric assessment in remote Aboriginal communities’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 435-442, SOWK13012 course resources online.
Barker, J. & Hodes, D. 2007. The Child in Mind: A child protection handbook. 3rd edition. Routledge. Oxon.