Insight in schizophrenia: A review

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 356-361

  Baier, Marjorie ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Insight; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; LONG ACTING DRUG; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

AGGRESSION; ANOSOGNOSIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONVALESCENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GROUP THERAPY; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE NEED; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTROSPECTION; MOTIVATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYMPTOM; THOUGHT DISORDER; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT REFUSAL; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AWARENESS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77956394453     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-010-0125-7     Document Type: Review

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