Improving Understanding and Coping in People with Schizophrenia by Changing Attitudes

Abstract In order to have a chance of coping and developing a reasonable quality of life, the individual suffering from the symptoms of schizophrenia will very often need to change lifelong attitudes towards psychiatric illness and medication. Deeply held personal attitudes towards achievement, approval, and control will often need to be developed to facilitate optimal understanding of the emergence of psychosis, its maintenance, and to optimize symptom control. This paper describes viable approaches to changing attitudes in schizophrenia within a CCOR1 framework, which should facilitate optimal adherence and coping.