Room: Windgate 60-61
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Presentation: Serious mental illnesses (SMI) are recurring illnesses that need long-term psychiatric and mental health care. Schizophrenia has a high rate of relapse, with up to 80 to 95% of individuals experiencing a relapse of symptoms within 2 to 5 years of recovery, particularly if the medication is discontinued (NIH). Bipolar disorder also has an annual relapse rate of about 25%. In this talk, Dr. Stanislaus will discuss the early signs of relapse in serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, how to prevent relapses, how to improve medication compliance and how to manage these patients without allowing them to have another full episode of their illness.
Objectives:
- To learn about the rates of relapses in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
- To identify the early symptoms of relapse
- To learn strategies that improve medication compliance
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