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Schizoaffective Disorders: A Case Study
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Although wide ranges of treatment options are available for treating schizoaffective disorder, many experts recommend starting with atypical antipsychotics. According to Kane, Leucht, Carpenter, & Docherty (2003), Risperidone (Risperdal) is the treatment of choice for a first-episode psychotic patient with positive symptoms, negative symptoms, or a combination of both (p.62). For those who have schizoaffective disorder it is very likely that they would start by proscribing Risperidone (Conley & Mahmoud, 2001 & Sinacola & Peters-Strickland 2011). Other choices that can be highly effective for this disorder are Clozapine (Clozaril), Olanzapine (Zyprexa), or Haloperidol (Haldol) (Volavka et al., 2002). It is important to note that
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