Background People with schizophrenia from families that express high levels of criticism,
hostility, or over involvement, have more frequent relapses than people with similar …

Background Antipsychotic medication reduces the severity of serious mental illness (SMI)
and improves patient outcomes only when medicines were taken as prescribed …

The third edition of the hugely successful Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical
Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a reliable and accessible …

The clinical measurements of insight have focused primarily on patients' unawareness of
their having a mental disorder and of their need for treatment ([Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 89 …

Background Schizophrenia can be a severe and chronic illness characterised by lack of
insight and poor compliance with treatment. Psychoeducational approaches have been …

There has been an increase in the study of insight in schizophrenia in the last 20 years.
Insight is operationally defined according to five dimensions which include: the patient's …

Between 50 and 80% of the patients diagnosed with schizophrenia have been shown to be
partially or totally lacking insight into the presence of their mental disorder. Although a …

Adherence to antipsychotics improves outcome in schizophrenia. There is a lack of
consensus on which factors most influence adherence behaviour and methodological …

This psychotherapy column by guest authors, Drs. Kingdon, Rathod, Weiden, and
Turkington, is a companion piece to the article" Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Medication …

Context Nonadherence to antipsychotic medication is a major cause of psychotic relapse
and is strongly influenced by attitudes toward treatment. Although patient variables such as …