Nonmedication Therapies
Cognitive behavioral therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation may play a role in treatment
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...
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