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Long-Term Treatment Goals: Enhancing Healthy Outcomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Daniel E. Casey
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Abstract

The long-term management of schizophrenia with a goal of functional rehabilitation remains an enormous challenge to clinicians despite improvements in drug therapy, psychosocial treatments, and family and community interventions. The goals of long-term therapy are to preserve the gains made during acute treatment, prevent symptom exacerbation, enhance psychosocial functioning, and improve quality of life. Schizophrenia is an illness that disrupts broad areas of mental function, including thought, cognition, affect, and motor performance. The new antipsychotics should aid physicians in meeting higher treatment goals for persons with schizophrenia. These agents combine high efficacy with improved tolerability, mainly through a low liability for extrapyramidal symptoms and probably improve cognitive affect. Recent studies have demonstrated efficacy of these new antipsychotics in improving psychopathology and symptoms and in preventing relapse during long-term use. These drugs are likely to provide physicians with an increasingly viable option in the long-term treatment and rehabilitation of patients with schizophrenia.

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Academic Supplement
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 8 , supplement S2: Optimizing Treatment for Patients With Schizophrenia: Targeting Positive Outcomes , November 2003 , pp. 26 - 28
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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