First-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs
Second-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is increasingly being recognized as a helpful approach for people with schizophrenia. Widely used to help people manage harmful habits, thoughts, and behaviors, CBT can be particularly useful in addressing schizophrenia symptoms that medication hasn't alleviated. For example, explains Anthony Lehman, chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, CBT can be useful for a person who experiences paranoid thoughts that people are staring at them and talking about them when they get on a bus. "CBT can help them learn to cope with those kinds of ideas and essentially learn to do a reality test on those ideas so they don't interfere with their daily life," Lehman explains. Then they can ride the bus to work or ...
