Image drawn by a schizophrenic patient
Learning about clinical disorders can be challenging for students. Generally they can reproduce a list of symptoms a given clinical disorder may have, but some teachers feel there is a lack of understanding of the disorders.
Grasping the full impact the symptoms may have on an individual, and understanding the disorder from the patient’s point of view, is a hard perspective to understand. It’s easy to say ‘imagine if ’, but imagination is hard when you have different perspectives of the illness and limited resources to reference to it. Understanding is what I aim to focus on when teaching schizophrenia to my students.
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