Together with the hospital treatment of patients in a psychotic condition,
the psychosocial rehabilitation of patients in remission is one of the
most important trends in modern psychiatry. It increases the degree and
duration of remission considerably and helps the patient to escape a severe
procedure of hospital treatment. For the successful functioning of the
Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center the acquisition of substantial knowledge
of such clinical phenomena as complete and incomplete remission and schizophrenic
deficiency are of particular importance, since they represent the diagnostic
categories of the Day Care Center target group and require thorough study
from the standpoint of a multidisciplinary group.
To effectively realize this knowledge acquisition it is necessary to
make an exact phenomenological and criteriological diagnosis for each member
of the target group according to the 10 th International
Review of Physical and Behavioral Disorders.
The cases discussed were explored by means of structured scale questionnaires.
The general symptomatic profile of the target group still has to
be made and the analysis of the results obtained still has to be conducted.
This article contributes to these two goals.
Thus, while considering the information on symptomatic and criteriological
profiles, it was shown that with hereditary loading the psychotic conditions
prevail, the age of the majority of patients being between 25 and 35. According
to the diagnoses, paranoid schizophrenia is the commonest. At the same
time when comparing the information from both tables it is clear that the
intensity and frequency of positive symptoms are far less than those of
negative symptoms.
The data obtained enables us to undertake supportive pharmacotherapy
more successfully. It also helps in the better application of certain psychotherapeutic
methods, e.g. Symptoms Management Skills Training methodology.