2. Behavioral Diversity Defined
❖ Various actions students make
❖ Some actions are similar to other peers
❖ Some actions are different from others peers
❖ Factors that influences this actions
3. Influences on Schizophrenia
❖ Cultural traditions
❖ Social norms
❖ Believes personal or family
❖ Values & Ideas
❖ Practices
4. Culture and Family Values
Western Values
Knowledge and understanding
improves outcomes
Social economic status
Eastern Values
Limited understanding more of a
curse
Treatment religious practices
Higher acceptance for males with
illness
5. Male & Female Differences
Males
Early onset of illness
More aggressive
behaviors
Additional mental
problems
Females
Higher percentage of paranoid delusions
More auditory hallucinations
Respond well to treatment
*Pérez-Garza, R., Victoria-Figueroa, G., & Ulloa-Flores, R. E. (2016). Sex Differences in
Severity, Social Functioning, Adherence to Treatment, and Cognition of Adolescents with
Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research & Treatment, 1–7.
https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/1928747
7. Daily Social Cognition Challenges
❖ Situations awareness
❖ Understanding others emotions
❖ Facial cues
❖ Social rules or expectations
8. Role of Health Educators
❖ Positive role model
❖ Demonstrate compassion
❖ Understand their coping skills
❖ Promote awareness of mental health issues
9. Bring it all together
Be the change
Of Mental Health
Awareness
10. References
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Editor's Notes
Before I discuss my research on a case study of schizophrenia I just want to quickly review with my staff behavior diversity and how we look at each student. One needs to examine them individually. Some factors that need to take into consideration are the different influences each one of our students bring into out classroom. Each student is affected differently and strategies that work with one student may not work with another. ( ACE presentation HLTH 5403, July 2019)
Schizophrenia is a form of psychosis, It is characterized by symptoms of hallucinations, delusions and social withdrawal. According to Pokin the rate of schizophrenia is consistent across cultures and also the onset rate( Potkin, Bera, Eramo, & Lau, 2017).
Through the research influences on schizophrenia are as different as each individual with schizophrenia. The culture and the family unit plays a vital role into whether treatment will be successful or not.
Research demonstrates the a difference between Western and Eastern families. Religious beliefs play a factor in some cultures believe the illness to be just a curse.
Practices of treatment and changing behaviors occurred if the family and individual had the ability to understand the illness and treatments. Knowledge of the health illness prove to have more positive comes.
Different cultures and races display markedly different symptoms and manifestations of schizophrenia, often due to the cultural norms and sociocentricity of a culture( Potkin, Bera, Eramo, & Lau, 2017). Eastern doctors have racial biases or negative connotations of the word schizophrenia and it’s been shown to alter the clinical diagnosis. Another way that cultures differentiate is the treatment of the patients. Eastern medicines aren’t prescribed or hospital stays are rarely used. Treatments tend to be religious practices to remove the curse especially in females. Eastern views have a higher acceptance or tolerance of males with sch schizophrenia. Westerners will have successful outcomes if patient and family have knowledge of the illness. Patients are more likely to participate in treatment if family is educated and from a middle-class economic status(Pérez-Garza, R., Victoria-Figueroa, G., & Ulloa-Flores, 2016).
Males have an earlier on- set and unfortunately have more negative symptoms and end up with poor functioning skills. Their behaviors are viewed as hostile which can be from a higher percentage a struggle to use verbal communication skills during an episode. Males also suffer from a longer period of recovery time than females.
Both suffer difficulties with emotional perception and struggle with memory verbal memory. Females have been determined to have more cognitive flexibility after an episode.
Adolescent onset of schizophrenia, and almost 30% of patients have it by the time they’re 18 years old (Hasan and Musleh, 2018).
Males did better when there was a positive family believe that males tend to have more help and support from their families
Females have a higher percentage of paranoid.
Stigma not only directly affects schizophrenia, depression and anxiety but also extends to the person's family and caregivers ( Hasan and Musleh 2018). It effects on individuals’ self-esteem and negatively affects their ability to play a meaningful role in within the social setting. The lack of proper social skills limits employment or individuals struggle to maintain jobs. Thus causing an additional burden to the family. Without effective treatment and positive family relations, individuals suffer further health and wellness problems.Schizophrenia, depression and anxiety are isolated and discriminated against, family and caregivers have fewer social relationships and face social exclusion.
Family members and health care providers have concealed their relative's condition and avoid seeking treatment, compounding health problems.
Recent studies have just started looking at social cognition which would be a more positive predictor of social abilities within the real world (Charernboon and Patumanond, 2017).
Individuals can they understand other people's emotion their intentions or actions within a social setting
Improving patients awareness of social situation rules of privacy or space and expectations are other
I could almost relate this to also with a person similar to autism not understanding social cues and becoming in awkward positions and then creating anxiety and then lead into episodes
As health educators it’s important that we be are a positive role model and excepting of a student with schizophrenia and other mental health illnesses.
Just has we been trained with students with autism, students with this schizophrenia struggle with the same social situations and understanding social clues. This is vital when students are working in a collaborative group setting with their peers. Also as health educators it’s important to have resources for parents especially with the onset of the illness when it’s new to them and they’re not understanding of this life-changing illness. Hopefully advances in technology, new virtual reality situations program can be effective for the treatment of those adolescents with schizophrenia. Like most chronic illness early detection and intervention always shows affective outcomes.
Raising an awareness r campaigns is the need to change attitudes in the future ( Hasan and Musleh, 2018).
Ite advances in technology new virtual reality situations program can be effective for the treatment of those Adolescencewith schizophrenia like most chronic illnesses or do you billet any diseases early detection and intervention always shows affective outcomes
Well I discussed about schizophrenia and towards the conclusion of the PowerPoint the characteristics of social struggles are similar to some of the autistic students you have had in previous classes so I’m just trying to make you aware and give you some support on how to work with the kids within your classroom some of the information is also important when we are working with parents with newly diagnosed students The aspect that I wanted to bring first was ways that I could support teachers within the classroom setting as well as being a health educator and if I were to work within our community building a health-based program and supplying resources to members within our family it was reported by our psychologist Karen Cote Mobley that there is been an increase in students identified as schizophrenia within our high school setting
