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Schizophrenia: The Journey To Recovery
The SSC is pleased to announce a new resource that provides consumers and family members with plain-language information on the clinical treatment of schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia: A Journey to Recovery -- A Consumer and Family Guide to Assessment and Treatment was produced through a partnership between the SSC and the Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA). The project adapted the CPA's Clinical Guidelines for the Treatment of Schizophrenia into a user-friendly format to assist consumers and families as they navigate their way through assessment and treatment of the illness.
Welcome from the President
Schizophrenia and psychosis are serious mental illnesses. Three percent of Canadian men and women will experience psychosis. One in one hundred will experience some form of schizophrenia. While these conditions are rare in childhood, they usually have their onset in the mid-to late teen years. This web site is developed as an important first step to answering your questions and understanding recovery for people living with schizophrenia and psychosis.
People living with mental illnesses like schizophrenia have talents, goals and feelings just like anyone else. Yet mental illness can have a profoundly negative effect, not only in the lives of those living with it, but their families and their communities. Individuals living with mental illness and their families are often shunned, becoming the targets of social prejudice. People living with schizophrenia may also face poverty, homelessness and high risk for suicide.
Lack of services has left many people living with schizophrenia inappropriately placed in jails and prisons. Medication, psycho-social rehabilitation, community-based supports and recovery -oriented mental health services can help people living with schizophrenia and psychosis lead meaningful and satisfying lives.
The Schizophrenia Society of Canada exists primarily as an advocacy organization helping to shape public policy, calling for a recovery-oriented mental health system, and partnering with others to reduce social prejudice and discrimination.
Schizophrenia and psychosis are treatable. Recovery of a quality of life is possible. Recovery is being able to live beyond the limitations of mental illness and experience social inclusion. And yet, while such recovery from mental illness is possible, it takes the support of a caring community!
Florence Budden, BN, President
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This program offers five free interactive weekly sessions, each ninety minutes long, and all facilitated by people in recovery who can give you valuable information that will help you on your recovery journey. You’ll also learn how to find peer support and build new life skills. |
