FINAL PAPER (200 points total, spread across multiple assignments).
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You will write a minimum of a 7-page paper on a topic that relates to educational psychology. Please use APA style when writing, which means you will includes a cover page and reference page. You will write at least 5 pages (or 5 slides) (double spaced) of content. In order to make the paper more interesting (and applicable to your life), you may pick your topic, related to developmental psychology
Paranoid Schizophrenia
Paper Topic: The Impact of Paranoid Schizophrenia on Daily Life and Effective Management Strategies
Audience: Academic readers, mental health professionals, and students
- Introduction
Possible ideas for the introduction:
Paranoid schizophrenia is a severe kind of schizophrenia that presents paranoid symptoms, hallucinations, and even impairment in functioning. This has consequences for the family, the community, and society at large in broader areas than it does for the individual.It is important to learn about this disorder, as it greatly helps to increase the probability of overcoming this problem and improving the patient’s quality of life.
Thesis Statement:
Paranoid schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects the individual’s daily life, but medication, social support, and therapy help reduce these symptoms and improve quality of life.
Examples/Details/Explanations:
- This is in the form of hallucinations, which serve to make one’s perception of the real world an obstacle to oneself and are quite a challenge to face in social interactions. (Rodrigues et al., 2021).
- Delusions lead to a continuous feeling of threat and distrust that affects one’s social interaction flow, as cited in the National Institute of Mental Health (2024).
- These symptoms have the social effect of no steady job or the inability to sustain relationships, illustrating the day-to-day life of the disorder.
Main Point: School-related stress and coping
Examples/Details/Explanations:
- Neuropsychological deficits can affect the ability to make independent decisions, leaving simple tasks as seemingly impossible tasks (Maj et al., 2021).
- Mood swings and anxiety, which are other emotional challenges, intensify conflict within couple relationships, leading to conflict resolution issues (Hasan et al., 2023).
- People and their graphic representations show that they are trapped in the vicious cycle of fear and cause that they become restricted from multiple social and professional opportunities.
Main Point: Role of Medication
Examples/Details/Explanations:
- Medication forms the main treatment for paranoid schizophrenia and involves controlling mood swings and hallucinations (National Institute of Mental Health, 2024).
- However, limitations like fatigue and weight gain affect -long-term compliance, and challenging treatment plans (Maj et al., 2021).
- The patient needs to learn about these medications and their side effects to benefit from the treatment, if possible, without damaging their quality of life.
Main Point: Therapeutic interventions
Examples/Details/Explanations:
- CBT is useful in making patients change negative perceptions considered as paranoid since it assists them in understanding these perceptions (Crone et al., 2023).
- Activity therapy encourages individuals to participate in creative or physical tasks that positively impact their health status or decrease signs and symptoms (Hasan et al., 2023).
- Available data show that therapy helps the patient acquire skills necessary for living with the disease and fuction better.
Main Point: Importance of social support
Examples/Details/Explanations:
- It is important to include the support of family and community during recovery, as it will provide an opportunity for support and encouragement from them. (Rodrigues et al., 2021).
- l find others like themselves facing similar situations. This takes away the sense of loneliness and being misunderstood.(Maj et al., 2020).
- Multiple studies show that better the social support help the participants’ with their mental health status and general well-being.
Conclusion
Reworded Thesis:
Paranoid schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects the individual’s daily life, but medication, social support, and therapy help reduce these symptoms and improve quality of life.
Other Ideas to Conclude:
Medication, especially in conjunction with therapy, is not just reduction of symptoms but rather a development of competencies that help deal with difficulties in daily life.
It is, therefore, clear that social support has a significant place in indicating that enhanced community support helps improve the outcomes of recovery needed in mental problems.
Clincher Ideas:
Thus, if we build a society that is compassionate and encourages people to learn more about the problem and the ways to help those who have paranoid schizophrenia, the individuals ready to have their lives back and achieve what they want will not stay alone.
References
Crone, C., Fochtmann, L. J., Attia, E., Boland, R., Escobar, J., Fornari, V., Golden, N., Guarda, A., Jackson-Triche, M., Manzo, L., Mascolo, M., Pierce, K., Riddle, M., Seritan, A., Uniacke, B., Zucker, N., Yager, J., Craig, T. J., Hong, S.-H., & Medicus, J. (2023). The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 180(2), 167–171. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.23180001
Hasan, F., Hassan, N., El, S., Hassan, S., & El-Azzab, I. (2023). Effect of Activity Therapy on Symptoms and Quality of Life among Patients with Paranoid Schizophrenia. Port Said ScientificJournalofNursing,10(2). https://journals.ekb.eg/article_301494_16d5be83306a2a7fb612809b603e53ac.pdf
Maj, M., Os, J., De Hert, M., Gaebel, W., Galderisi, S., Green, M. F., Guloksuz, S., Harvey, P. D., Jones, P. B., Malaspina, D., McGorry, P., Miettunen, J., Murray, R. M., Nuechterlein, K. H., Peralta, V., Thornicroft, G., Winkel, R., & Ventura, J. (2021). The clinical characterization of the patient with primary psychosis aimed at personalization of management. World Psychiatry, 20(1), 4–33. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20809
National Institute of Mental Health. (2024, April). Schizophrenia. National Institute of Mental Health. https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia
Rodrigues Da Costa, R., & Feliciano, G. (2021). Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Review of Current Literature. International Journal Peer Reviewed Journal Refereed Journal Indexed Journal Impact Factor, 9(12), 14–24. https://wwjmrd.com/upload/paranoid-schizophrenia-a-review-of-current-literature_1703839152.pdf