The importance of measuring psychosocial functioning in schizophrenia
Open Access
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Annals of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 10 (1), 18
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-859x-10-18
Abstract
Schizophrenia is among the most disabling of mental illnesses and frequently causes impaired functioning. We explore issues of definition and terminology, and the relationship between social functioning, cognition, and psychopathology considering relevant research findings.Keywords
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