The Treatment Of Schizoaffective Disorder

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The Treatment of Schizoaffective Disorder
Schizoaffective disorder is a psychotic disorder that distorts a person’s perception of reality. Showing itself to be very similar to schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder has symptoms that include hallucination, delusions, and disorganized speech. This disease also shows similarities to affective disorders, such as bipolar disorder with symptoms including major depressive episodes, manic episodes, or these types of symptoms are mixed with those that are found in psychotic disorder. Like schizophrenia and affective disorders, this illness is difficult to treat on the basis of finding what is the cause of the episode, the type of treatment available for schizoaffective disorder, and the adherence to the regimen created for treatment. What shall be done here is to review various literature sources that go into detail of what schizoaffective disorder is and its causes, the types of treatments that are used for people with schizoaffective disorder, and the cooperation of patients with schizoaffective disorder.
Marneros and Angst (2000) did some searching to find the origins of schizoaffective disorder and they found that between the years 1860 and 1960, Karl Kahlbaum and eventually Kurt Schneider provided a type of category for schizoaffective disorder based on their findings of “longitudinal polymorphous psychotic disorders”, otherwise known as “concurrent” (pg. 111) schizoaffective disorder. This category was based on the amount of both schizophrenic and affective episodes. What this shows is that by observing patients and making diagnoses in regards to the onset, duration, and severity of each type of episode (pg. 111). There was also discussion on differentiating...

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... makes room to give an accurate reading of the MOAS scale. Once the results were analyzed they came to the conclusion that there was no significant difference between the three medication groups involving the duration of hospital stays and the proportion of subjects who were given the randomized medications (pg. 625). It was also found that there was no difference between the severity of violent outbursts for the three drugs (these results are in association with a primary measures of aggressions for the MOAS).
Medications are not the only way to treat persons with schizoaffective disorder. Community groups are also capable of providing care to those who are debilitated by this disorder and well as giving education to others on the topic of this illness.
Of course, treatment is only effective if the patient taking them is consistent in their regimen.

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