People with Schizophrenia Out of Social Isolation: A Didactic Perspective to Increase the New Well-Being

Barbara Galbusera – ASST Lecco, Via Eremo 9/11, Lecco, Italy

Abstract: The outcome of this pedagogical interview conducted in a Day Care Service found that the pandemic from COVID-19 favored in a group of schizophrenia people social isolation, a flattening of interests, and an in­crease in additional anxiolytic drug therapy. Thanks to an educational ac­tivity carried out with a group of patients who showed before the pandem­ic period a common interest in watching films, an educational path has been structured that, after six months, allowed them to decrease the need for anx­iolytic therapy, resume old hobbies, going out of home and rekindle relation­ships in the context of belonging. The positive results of this experience un­derline how, in the treatment paths, it is important to encourage education­al interventions to allow patients with schizophrenia to improve their self-be­ing in the world (also reducing the need for support from national health ser­vice professionals to access the living environment) and to become an active member of the community.

7th International Scientific Conference – EMAN 2023 – Economics and Management: How to Cope With Disrupted Times, Ljubljana, Slovenia, March 23, 2023, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, published by: Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans, Belgrade, Serbia; ISBN 978-86-80194-69-1, ISSN 2683-4510, DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/EMAN.2023

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