| Inability to cope with stress
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| | Stress management: cognitive-behavioural strategies coupled with problem-solving therapy.
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| Social interpersonal difficulties
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| | Social-skills training, targeting specific areas such as making conversation, eye contact, non-verbal communication, method role playing, modelling, and small groups.
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| | Self-help groups.
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| Residual psychotic symptoms
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| | Cognitive-behavioural treatments which either lead to switching attention, increasing or decreasing stimuli, sensory strategies or physiological strategies.
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| | Reality reinforcement educational group, aiming to increase patient's insight into the bizarre nature of their beliefs and allowing differentiation between symptoms and reality.
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| Deficit symptoms
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| | Counselling, encouragement to join groups, structured rehabilitation, sheltered employment with high task repetition.
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| | Constructive use of leisure time.
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| | Training in skills for activities of daily living
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| | Specific rehabilitation of basic life skills, such as cooking and budgeting.
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| | Use of community support workers for practical assistance.
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| Social handicaps (finances, resources, housing, stigma)
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| | Assistance and advocacy, social programs, service networking, self-help groups.
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| Family discord
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| | Psycho-education: didactic information about schizophrenia, drugs and the role of stress in relapse.
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| | Stress management: enhance communication; problem solving (both discreet issues and problem-solving techniques).
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| | Crisis intervention.
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