Caso clínico de esquizofrenia y consumo de sustancias con curso incierto

Abstract

Abstract: In the present clinical case, the intervention carried out on an institutionalized subject in a palliative care home with undifferentiated schizophrenia and abstinence from polydrug use is detailed. For this, treatment with psychological techniques, specifically cognitive behavioral, was proposed, to optimize social skills and conflict resolution capacity to reduce the consequences that affect biopsychosocial well-being; its prognosis is uncertain because risk factors are considered, primarily the suspicion of cognitive impairment and lack of social support. After the psychological intervention, favorable results were shown regarding relapse prevention, analysis of reality, improvement in social skills, and maintenance of cognitive deterioration. In this way, it is concluded that the exhaustive exploration of evaluation and diagnosis processes, allowed to formulate a treatment with satisfactory results.