Schizophrenia: A Case Study of the Movie A BEAUTIFUL MIND - Second Edition

Francine R Goldberg

Description

This e-book is designed to be used as a companion to the Universal Studios film, A BEAUTIFUL MIND. It presents a unique and entertaining learning opportunity for both mental health professionals and those who are not trained in mental health. It brings the diagnosis of schizophrenia to life with its scene-by-scene information about the movie. For mental health professionals it serves as an entertaining up-to-date refresher course with a chance to earn continuing education credits. For non-mental health professionals it allows the movie to be an entertaining vehicle that educates readers to recognize and understand schizophrenia; know the potential risks to individuals, their families, friends, co-workers and fellow students, if the illness is untreated; and to know about options for a safe and productive life for individuals with the illness. The e-book discusses diagnostic symptoms; acute and long term pharmacological treatment; rehabilitation; and disability management for the social, vocational and educational impairments from the illness to individuals with schizophrenia.

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• Study Aids
• Employabilité, métiers et formations
• Professional

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 29 décembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781934107126
• Langue: English

Extrait

Schizophrenia: A Case Study of the Movie A BEAUTIFUL MIND - Second Edition
by
Francine R Goldberg, Ph.D.
 
Copyright 2011 Francine R Goldberg, Ph.D.,
All rights reserved.
 
Published in eBook format by Beneficial Film Guides
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ISBN-13: 978-1-9341-0712-6
 
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Outline of Scenes
Mathematics
• Introduction to John Nash
• Introduction to Martin Hansen
• Reasons for delays in diagnosis and treatment
• Unique ability to see patterns
• Introduction to schizophrenia
Age of onset
Positive symptoms
Negative symptoms
Hallucinations
Delusions
 
A Challenge
• Functional Impairment
Social
Academic
• The prodrome period
 
The Need to Focus
• Manifestation of symptoms
Hallucinations
Impoverished fluency and productivity of thought and speech
Severely impaired social interactions
Inability to focus
Diminished impulse control
Prodromol symptoms
 
Governing Dynamics
• Absence of symptoms
Flat affect
The Pentagon
• Reemergence of positive symptoms
Ideas of reference
Cognitive impairment in executive functioning
 
Teacher and Student
• Connecting symptoms to impairment
 
Code Breaker
• Emotional stress and pain
• Intensification of positive symptoms
Delusions of grandeur
Visual hallucinations
Tactile hallucinations
 
Alicia
• Full blown manifestation of positive and negative symptoms
 
The Prodigal Roommate
• More interpersonal stress – more intensified positive symptoms
• Overelaborate speech
 
The Wedding
• Residual phase of illness
• Mental status (examination)
 
Trouble
• Full blown psychosis
• Delusions of persecution
 
Dr. Rosen
• Psychiatric intervention
 
Mental Illness
• DSM-IV-TR
Diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia
Diagnostic criteria for paranoid schizophrenia
Multiaxial system for categorizing mental disorders
 
Devastation of illness
To John
To Alicia
 
Treatment
• Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
• First psychotic episode: A critical period
• Low stress environment
• Multimodal treatment
• Multi-element programs
• First generation antipsychotic medications and side effects
• Medication noncompliance and long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication
• Second generation antipsychotic medications
• CATIE comparison of first and second-generation medication
• Current research targeting the Glutamate theory
• Alerts for neuroleptic malignant syndrome and agranulocytosis
• Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Family Intervention
Psycho-education
Behavioral problem-solving
Family support
Crisis management
 
Delusions
• Treatment of positive symptoms vs. impaired life functioning
• Medication compliance vs. noncompliance
• Reasons for inconsistencies with treatment
• Interventions for continuity of care
• Symptom driven impulsive (dangerous) behavior
• Command hallucinations
• Risk for suicide / homicide
• Cognitive remediation and scaffolding
• Disability management
 
Princeton
• Psychiatric rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation readiness determination
• Skill development
• Smoking prevalence, cessation and health risk to people with schizophrenia
• Physical Illness and schizophrenia
 
Goodbye, Old Friends
• Cognitive remediation and errorless learning
 
A Nobel Prize
• More disability management techniques
• Recovery from schizophrenia is not unique
Continuing Education Information
For information about Continuing Education credit for watching the movie A BEAUTIFUL MIND and using this e-book as your guide visit:
www.BeneficialFilmGuides.com
 
Learning Objectives
This e-book is designed to be used as a companion to the Universal Studios film, A BEAUTIFUL MIND. It presents a unique and entertaining learning opportunity for both mental health professionals and those who are not trained in mental health. It brings the diagnosis of schizophrenia to life with its scene-by-scene information about the movie. For mental health professionals it serves as an entertaining up-to-date refresher course with a chance to earn continuing education credits. For non-mental health professionals it allows the movie to be an entertaining vehicle that educates readers to recognize and understand schizophrenia; know the potential risks to individuals, their families, friends, co-workers and fellow students if the illness is untreated; and to know about options for a safe and productive life for individuals with the illness. The e-book discusses diagnostic symptoms; acute and long term pharmacological treatment; rehabilitation; and disability management for the social, vocational and educational impairments from the illness to individuals with schizophrenia. The movie portrays a textbook example of the illness and is valuable for learning. It should be emphasized that the “Hollywood effect” may tend to over/under exaggerate the symptoms and behaviors experienced by many individuals with this disorder.
 
The e-book will explain:
• positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia
• DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia
• DSM-IV multi-axial diagnosis
• mental status
• 1 st and 2 nd generation antipsychotic medications
• the CATIE (Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness study) findings
• multi-element programs
• psychiatric rehabilitation, family intervention, disability management
• cognitive remediation
• functional impact of schizophrenia
• schizophrenia and physical illness
• consumer perspectives
 
Schizophrenia
With the movie, “A Beautiful Mind,” Ron Howard and Universal Studios provide an opportunity to learn about the illness, schizophrenia, a disease of the brain that impairs an individual’s perceptions, concentration, and social interaction and, thus, can be quite disabling. It is characterized by a person’s perception of reality which can be very different from the way most other people perceive the same reality. This guide will assist the reader, while viewing the movie, in learning about this illness and its effect on people who have it, their families and their friends. To make the best use of this guide :
 
1. VIEW THE FILM IN ITS ENTIRETY, then
2. READ THE GUIDE, SECTION BY SECTION, AS YOU REVIEW THE CORRESPONDING SCENE FROM THE FILM.
 
The power of this movie is that it is written and filmed from the perspective of a person with schizophrenia as well as from the perspective of others. Thus, it presents not only what is observed about John externally through society’s reality; it also demonstrates what drives John internally through his unique reality. It demonstrates how an action or behavior of a person with schizophrenia can appear to be bizarre to an observer while appearing so appropriate to the person experiencing it.
 
Mathematicians
The film opens in September, 1947, as the Chairperson of Princeton University’s mathematics department, Professor Helinger, welcomes the incoming class of mathematicians. Although the significant players are not formally introduced, non-verbal behavior introduces the two who stand out from the group. One demonstrates a feeling of superiority by leaning on the edge of the table with his back to many of the students who are seated on chairs around the table.