From a clinical mental health view, schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness that effects 50 million Americans (Potvin, Lungu, Tikasz, & Mendrek, (2017). Schizophrenia is recognized for its abnormal hallucinations and delusions which is known to manifest in late adolescent and early adulthood (Gasso, Sanchez-Gistau, Mas, Sugranyes, Rodriguez, Boloc, & Castro-Fornieles, 2016; Telles-Correia, Moreira, Marques, Saraiva, Moreira, Antunes, & Dos Santos, 2016). Why schizophrenia is a concern to the mental health field is due to investigating the mental limitations of this population, treatments in assisting the hallucinations and delusions, and for counselors to understand the symptoms of the illness (Potvin et al., 2017; Gasso et al., 2016; Telles-Correia et al., 2016). Regarding the concerns by counselors, the research question is what are several concerns professional counselors face when counseling patients affected by schizophrenia?
The Emotional Functioning
It is essential for a professional to gain an understanding of the schizophrenic’s mental capacity …show more content…
However, the healthy controls did not rate the neutral images as more emotional than the schizophrenia patients did. Based on the results, we found schizophrenia patient’s right and left side amygdalae may not perform the same roles in emotional stimuli such as a normal cognitive individual would. It is revealed that the right amygdala performs a detection role that responds to the emotional stimuli, while the left amygdala is to help stimuli evaluation. Also, there was evidence that reductions lagged in the connectivity from both sides of the amygdala to the dmPFC during a negative situation. These suggestions of the failed connectivity can explain why these schizophrenia patients tend to convey emotional salience to insignificant stimuli’s (Potvin et al.,
The Emotional Functioning
It is essential for a professional to gain an understanding of the schizophrenic’s mental capacity …show more content…
However, the healthy controls did not rate the neutral images as more emotional than the schizophrenia patients did. Based on the results, we found schizophrenia patient’s right and left side amygdalae may not perform the same roles in emotional stimuli such as a normal cognitive individual would. It is revealed that the right amygdala performs a detection role that responds to the emotional stimuli, while the left amygdala is to help stimuli evaluation. Also, there was evidence that reductions lagged in the connectivity from both sides of the amygdala to the dmPFC during a negative situation. These suggestions of the failed connectivity can explain why these schizophrenia patients tend to convey emotional salience to insignificant stimuli’s (Potvin et al.,