Sharing own story telling during COVID-19’s italian lockdown: An experience with schizophrenic outpatients
Introduction Affective flattening is one of the main symptoms in Schizophrenia, several studies highlighted the importance of social skills training in improving negative symptoms. However, Covid-19 pandemic is changing our life with limitations in social contacts and in psychosocial rehabilitatio...
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Introduction
Affective flattening is one of the main symptoms in Schizophrenia, several studies highlighted the importance of social skills training in improving negative symptoms. However, Covid-19 pandemic is changing our life with limitations in social contacts and in psychosocial rehabilitation; pre COVID-19 strategies should be implemented with new ones.
Objectives
To evaluate the practicability of a narrative method in improving affective flattening, general social skills in stable outpatients with a diagnosis for schizophrenia during Italian lockdown in March – April 2020
Methods
Outpatients with a stable psychopathology have been involved in a narrative project during lockdown. We asked to patients to write daily a story telling about their experience and emotions and send us their diary. Every week the diary has been used to discuss their story telling in group in a web conference. At end of the experience we administered a survey about the enjoyment and the subjective benefits.
Results
From ten people with a known psychopathology we recruited six patients. All participants completed the project and all of them referred for a subjective benefit as to feel more reassured by the contact with their psychiatrist. Four patients explicated initial discomfort about share their experiences in group. One patient started to share his own thoughts about mental disease on social media.
Conclusions
Narrative Psychiatry might be a pragmatic opportunity to implement conventional strategies to contrast affective flattening and negative symptoms in Schizophrenia. Sharing digital story telling is a useful method in lockdown and general social restriction condition.
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| spelling | doaj.art-7a4b0a90d59e45c0ae7eaf82522fc1ce2023-11-17T05:05:22ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852021-04-0164S297S29710.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.796Sharing own story telling during COVID-19’s italian lockdown: An experience with schizophrenic outpatientsA. Gentile0I. Matarazzo1S. Marini2Centro Di Salute Mentale, AsreM, Termoli, ItalyCentro Di Salute Mentale, AsreM, Termoli, ItalyCentro Di Salute Mentale, AsreM, Termoli, Italy Introduction Affective flattening is one of the main symptoms in Schizophrenia, several studies highlighted the importance of social skills training in improving negative symptoms. However, Covid-19 pandemic is changing our life with limitations in social contacts and in psychosocial rehabilitation; pre COVID-19 strategies should be implemented with new ones. Objectives To evaluate the practicability of a narrative method in improving affective flattening, general social skills in stable outpatients with a diagnosis for schizophrenia during Italian lockdown in March – April 2020 Methods Outpatients with a stable psychopathology have been involved in a narrative project during lockdown. We asked to patients to write daily a story telling about their experience and emotions and send us their diary. Every week the diary has been used to discuss their story telling in group in a web conference. At end of the experience we administered a survey about the enjoyment and the subjective benefits. Results From ten people with a known psychopathology we recruited six patients. All participants completed the project and all of them referred for a subjective benefit as to feel more reassured by the contact with their psychiatrist. Four patients explicated initial discomfort about share their experiences in group. One patient started to share his own thoughts about mental disease on social media. Conclusions Narrative Psychiatry might be a pragmatic opportunity to implement conventional strategies to contrast affective flattening and negative symptoms in Schizophrenia. Sharing digital story telling is a useful method in lockdown and general social restriction condition. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933821007963/type/journal_articleCOVID-19Narrative Psychiatry |
| spellingShingle | A. Gentile I. Matarazzo S. Marini Sharing own story telling during COVID-19’s italian lockdown: An experience with schizophrenic outpatients European Psychiatry COVID-19 Narrative Psychiatry |
| title | Sharing own story telling during COVID-19’s italian lockdown: An experience with schizophrenic outpatients |
| title_full | Sharing own story telling during COVID-19’s italian lockdown: An experience with schizophrenic outpatients |
| title_fullStr | Sharing own story telling during COVID-19’s italian lockdown: An experience with schizophrenic outpatients |
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| title_short | Sharing own story telling during COVID-19’s italian lockdown: An experience with schizophrenic outpatients |
| title_sort | sharing own story telling during covid 19 s italian lockdown an experience with schizophrenic outpatients |
| topic | COVID-19 Narrative Psychiatry |
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