Supportive counseling for schizophrenia

Participants (35 year old woman) who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Various unpleasant experiences in him cause clients to get treatment at the mental hospital for the first time. The client also has a husband who has a mental disorder. Various assessments were carried out to diagnose clients including interviews, observations, and psychological tests which included graphical tests (BAUM, DAP, and HTP), WAIS, SSCT, TAT, WWQ and emotional scales from Carlson. Based on the results of the assessment, the client is diagnosed with schizophrenia (in accordance with DSM V) with a problem of the client’s lack of ability to control emotions. Interventions conducted to clients with supportive counseling that aims to improve emotional control in individuals who have a schizophrenic partner so that clients have a more meaningful and valuable life, from a psychological point of view so that individuals whose partners have schizophrenia can improve emotional control so that it is expected to manage stress in a way that more adaptive. The results after the client’s intervention experience an increase in emotional control such as not being irritable and the client can cathartic negative emotions such as talking in the mirror and shouting at the pad when angry. In addition, clients are also more able to express their opinions.