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AHEC Training Offerings

AHEC Training Offerings

Sample Titles/Topics:

  • Brief Overview of Schizophrenia
  • Psychosocial Treatments for Psychotic Disorders
  • Extended Overview of Schizophrenia
  • Early Psychosis
  • Review and Update on Pharmacological Treatment of Schizophrenia
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in Treatment of Schizophrenia
  • Social Cognition and Interaction Training
  • The At-Risk Mental State (a.k.a The Prodrome)

To schedule one of the presentations above or to discuss other possible topics, please contact Selden Holt, LCSW, training coordinator, holts@med.unc.edu or 919.942.7363, x246.

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Once the hallucinations or delusions are controlled by medications, the person should be able to return to normal and get on with his or her life.

To a degree this may be true, but for some people with schizophrenia, medications do not completely control the positive symptoms (hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized behavior), nor do they have much effect on the negative symptoms (brief or no replies in conversation, lack of motivation, inability to experience pleasure, blunted affect), or cognitive symptoms (impaired attention, memory, and executive functioning). Given that these other symptoms can affect a person's ability to function as much as or even more than the positive symptoms, it's clear that the medications we have currently are not always enough to return a person to full recovery. That's why we recommend a team approach to treatment that includes medications and psychosocial interventions.