The World Health Organization (WHO) considers schizophrenia to be one of the world’s ten leading causes of disability (2016). This severe mental illness has an array of symptoms and affects a person’s thought, emotions, perception, and behavior. Individuals suffering from schizophrenia have the inability to separate reality from fantasies, which can play into the difficultly as to why the illness can be so hard to treat. Since there is no one cause for schizophrenia, professionals are forced to look into many aspects of an individual’s life. Many times when individuals develop schizophrenia family burden is increased. The family as a whole experiences an abrupt change in emotions and dynamics which causes instability within the family.
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Positive symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, abnormal behavior and disorganized speech. Negative symptoms include reduced expression or emotion, lack of motivation and problems with speech. In order to be clinically diagnosed with schizophrenia an individual must have signs of disturbance for six months and at least one of the months must possess two active symptoms (American Psychiatric Association, 2013.) According to the World Health Organization (2016) schizophrenia impacts 21 million people annually. Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness and consist of harsh symptoms that impede individuals daily living. Depending on the severity, some individuals may need constant care to manage symptoms, and enhance individual and community’s safety. Males have a slightly higher chance of developing schizophrenia than woman. The average age for men to develop schizophrenia is between the ages of 18-25 years old, while women are more likely to develop the illness in their late 20’s to early 30’s (Frey, Wienclaw, Atkins, 2012). According Calkins and Iacono (2003) there is a slight correlation between lower-class and developing schizophrenia. The possibility for this correlation can be due to the increased number of stressors that families experience when living underclass. Schizophrenia is considered to be a multi-inherited illness because many different factors play into the development of the illness. Families play a key role into the management and treatment plan for individuals suffering from the illness. Members of the family often have a difficult time understanding the mental illness and adapting to the new lifestyle change. In addition to the sudden change, family members have to deal with their own feelings as to what is happening. Common Disruption in family function and individual relationships is ordinary due to the changes in behavior and cognitive display. Common
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Positive symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, abnormal behavior and disorganized speech. Negative symptoms include reduced expression or emotion, lack of motivation and problems with speech. In order to be clinically diagnosed with schizophrenia an individual must have signs of disturbance for six months and at least one of the months must possess two active symptoms (American Psychiatric Association, 2013.) According to the World Health Organization (2016) schizophrenia impacts 21 million people annually. Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness and consist of harsh symptoms that impede individuals daily living. Depending on the severity, some individuals may need constant care to manage symptoms, and enhance individual and community’s safety. Males have a slightly higher chance of developing schizophrenia than woman. The average age for men to develop schizophrenia is between the ages of 18-25 years old, while women are more likely to develop the illness in their late 20’s to early 30’s (Frey, Wienclaw, Atkins, 2012). According Calkins and Iacono (2003) there is a slight correlation between lower-class and developing schizophrenia. The possibility for this correlation can be due to the increased number of stressors that families experience when living underclass. Schizophrenia is considered to be a multi-inherited illness because many different factors play into the development of the illness. Families play a key role into the management and treatment plan for individuals suffering from the illness. Members of the family often have a difficult time understanding the mental illness and adapting to the new lifestyle change. In addition to the sudden change, family members have to deal with their own feelings as to what is happening. Common Disruption in family function and individual relationships is ordinary due to the changes in behavior and cognitive display. Common