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The vulnerability-stress model of schizophrenia: advances in psychosocial treatment
G R Yank1, K J Bentley, D S Hargrove
1Department of Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Vulnerability models of schizophrenia are reviewed, along with psychosocial rehabilitation methods addressing functional abilities and social competence. Their relationship is discussed with a view to developing a framework in which biological and psychosocial approaches to schizophrenia can be integrated for purposes of effective clinical intervention. Such intervention is designed to improve social competence, cognitive appraisal, and coping skills for mediation of stress in vulnerable individuals.