Maria Orwid

Model postępowania we wczesnej schizofrenii   849

The model of action in early schizophrenia          849

Summary

I will present the model of thinking of the Cracow society in dealing with first episodes of schizophrenia in adolescents. During adolescence schizophrenia brings about diagnostic difficulties, because it is a period of stormy psychosocial and biological changes in the patient. Also, the responsibility of the therapists seems to be different - perhaps even more so than in their work with an adult. Importance of the environment of the psychiatric ward and group psychotherapy as well as the peer group for the patients, the role of family therapy, especially trans-generational transmission, place of individual psychotherapy and biological therapy in this system, all will be discussed. I will describe the importance of both, pedagogical therapy and the school in the course of the therapeutic process of the adolescent patients. In a closer manner, I will also describe the emotional problems of therapists dealing with adolescents having psychosis.