Rachel Miller 
Diagnosis: Schizophrenia [EPUB ebook] 
A Comprehensive Resource for Consumers, Families, and Helping Professionals, Second Edition

Foreword to the Second Edition
Foreword
Introductory Note
A Note on the Title
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Using This Book
Introduction: So They Say We Have Schizophrenia
1. In the Beginning
2. So Many Questions: The Quick Reference Guide
3. How the Brain Works
4. What Is Schizophrenia?
5. Why Me?
6. Diagnosing Schizophrenia
7. What Will People Think of Me Now?
8. Medication
9. Out of the Hospital and Staying Well
10. Coping with Positive and Negative Symptoms
11. Coping with Other Symptoms and Side Effects
12. Drugs, Alcohol, and Safer Sex
13. Under the Microscope
14. Zelda’s Story
15.Who Am I Now? 
16. Getting the Social Services You Need
17.Vocational Rehabilitation
Appendix 1. Client Assistance Program Directory
Appendix 2. Vocational Rehabilitation Directory
Appendix 3. Other Resources
Index

Rachel Miller is a social worker for the National Institute of Mental Health, Child Psychiatry Branch, where she works with children with psychotic disorders and their families. From 1995 to 2007, she was the senior social worker for the first-episode of schizophrenia continuous care team at Zucker Hillside Hospital in New York.Susan E. Mason is professor of social work and sociology at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, where she teaches courses on psychiatric disorders. As a social work coordinator at Zucker Hillside Hospital, she managed clinical trials for people diagnosed with schizophrenia. She is a fellow at the New York Academy of Medicine and a senior education specialist and fellow for the New York State Social Work Education Consortium.