RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FOR SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER

Time Wellness offers mental health treatment in Arkansas for those looking for a unique approach to treatment. Contact us today to learn more.

What is Schizoaffective Disorder?

When someone mentions schizoaffective disorder, it’s common for others to think it’s the same thing as schizophrenia. Schizoaffective disorder has some things in common with it, but it is also a mental health disorder with its own unique symptoms and ways of impacting a person’s life. 

About 3 in 1000 People Have Schizoaffective Disorder

According to JAMA Psychiatry, the lifetime prevalence of schizoaffective disorder is about 0.32%.

Schizoaffective disorder is a mental health disorder that cannot be cured. However, its symptoms can be managed by seeking professional help. 

The disorder can cause a variety of side effects that make it difficult for a person to maintain employment, have meaningful relationships, and live independently. The disorder has similar symptoms to schizophrenia, including hallucinations. 

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Signs and Symptoms of Schizoaffective Disorder

Someone in need of residential treatment for schizoaffective disorder will exhibit signs and symptoms. Signs to be on the lookout for include:

• Paranoia
• Hallucinations
• Delusions
• Difficulty concentrating, thinking, or making decisions
• Often appearing unemotional
• Isolating
• Poor hygiene
• Moodiness, including mania and depression
• Avoiding social situations or feeling uncomfortable in them

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Our Treatment Programs for Schizoaffective Disorder

People make the most of their treatment when we match them with the right level of care for their specific needs.

Our treatment programs include:

• Inpatient/Residential: The individual moves into our comfortable and luxurious facility for round-the-clock treatment.
• Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP): Sessions take place for several hours per day on multiple days per week. This plan is ideal for those who have completed an inpatient program or didn’t need to attend one.
• Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP): The person attends sessions three hours per day for three to five days per week.
• Outpatient Program (OP): The last step before concluding treatment only requires one or two therapy sessions per week.
• Virtual Treatment: Therapy sessions can be done from any private remote location and saves the person from a trip to the facility.

Causes of Schizoaffective Disorder

Schizoaffective disorder doesn’t have one identifiable reason why someone may develop it. If a family member has it, the individual has an increased likelihood of developing it. Someone who has experienced a traumatic event may develop the disorder. Abuse of drugs or alcohol can also be a causal factors. 

Schizoaffective Disorder + Co-Occurring Mental Health Conditions

Too often, a person trying to diagnose an individual who has schizoaffective disorder doesn’t recognize this mental illness. They may think the person has schizophrenia or some type of mood disorder. This makes it vital for anyone who isn’t sure what’s going on to get an assessment from a trained and licensed mental health expert. As well, some people can have both schizoaffective disorder and another mental health disorder.

How We Treat Schizoaffective Disorder in Arkansas

 As part of our treatment for schizoaffective disorder, we include over a dozen types of therapy modalities. This allows each person we treat to have access to a wealth of types of therapy that will help them meet their treatment goals. The types of therapy we offer include:

• Medication-Management: Using prescription medications that help reduce the symptoms of mental illness when combined with the use of talk therapy.
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Teaching people to recognize how interconnected their thoughts and feelings are and how they impact their behaviors.
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: This therapy focuses on four tenets that include mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance.
• Biofeedback Therapy: A non-invasive treatment that uses body signals such as brain waves to help people reduce their anxiety.
• Red Light Therapy: Using low levels of red light to help improve depressive symptoms and offer other benefits.
• Life Skills Training and Education: Many people with schizoaffective disorder need help learning practical daily living skills such as personal hygiene and creating a daily schedule.
• Yoga and Mindfulness Therapy: Both activities help people learn to relax and feel calm.
• Art Therapy: Using the creation of art to help people express their emotions and thoughts.
• Music Therapy: Both listening to and making music to express a person’s emotions.
• Trauma Therapy: People who have schizoaffective disorder often suffer from trauma. This type of therapy helps them identify what happened and process it.
• Family Program: Families come together under the guidance of a therapist to learn how to support their loved ones.
• Experiential Therapies: Using outdoor activities to help promote stress relief.
• Brain Mapping: Using non-invasive brain imaging to help the treatment team find the best treatment options for each person.
• Alternative: Different types of therapy that help people achieve a sense of balance, both physically and emotionally.

Why Time Wellness?

At Time Wellness Arkansas, we believe in providing the best possible residential treatment for schizoaffective disorder. This starts with us getting to know each person we treat so we can understand how they experience their mental illness. This allows us to create a menu of specific therapies for them to attend and help them set treatment goals.

Our programs treat each person as the individual they are, which allows them to flourish as they start to heal.