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Although the lifetime incidence of
schizophrenia is roughly similar in men and women it remains the case that men
seem to have a worse general outlook than women. More men than women are
diagnosed with schizophrenia between the ages of 15 to 25 and they tend to show
higher levels of social withdr...
This gender seperateness is evident throughout today's treatment. Its' too bad that at a major provincial hospital here in BC we actually have serperate man/woman locked wards. I guess that's their way of seperate gender treatment. I have been told ,from psychiatric nurses, thaty they feel that the women were more violent in the acute phase of their illness. This illustrates the need for co-ed dorms in the hospital setting. From my research in the community, the men in recovery tend to be "loners" whereas the recovered women tend to socialize.
Thank-you for your informative blog -post
Sincerely,
Don Fraser
Hi Don,
Interesting points. My own experience of psychiatric settings is somewhat similar in the sense that male and female wards were pretty standard. I'm also pretty sure this did not constitute anything like a 'gender sensitive' approach to treatment so much as a practical system for managing behavior and containment.
I have to say I also dispute the notion of women being more violent. I worked in psychiatric settings for 17 years in a variety of settings, including secure settings, and found violence (a) relatively rare and (b) no more frequent in men than in women.