Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Improve Self-Esteem of Schizophrenics

Zainul Anwar,Diana Zumrotus Sa’Adah

doi:10.15520/ijcrr.v11i12.876

Zainul Anwar, Diana Zumrotus Sa’Adah

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https://doi.org/10.15520/ijcrr.v11i12.876

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Abstract

Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder that is characterized by major disturbances in terms of thoughts, emotions, and behavior. The employed assessment methods consist of interviews, observation, psychological tests, and documentation. The subjects were schizophrenics with low self-esteem problems. The treatment strategy through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) was aimed to change negative thoughts and maladaptive behavior to increase self-esteem. The result was a change in the form of thoughts or beliefs that everyone had weaknesses and strengths, including themselves, and an increase in self-esteem scores. Keywords: Schizophrenia, self-esteem, cognitive behavioral therapy

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Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by positive symptoms such as chaotic speech, delusions, hallucinations, cognitive impairment, perception, and other symptoms
There is a decrease in self-function which has an impact on decreasing the social function of daily life which has an impact on the low self-esteem of individuals, this is because aspects of cognition related to experiences of social stress have implications for one’s evaluation of himself (Penn & Muesser, 1996; Scholten, van Honk, Aleman, & Kahn, 2006)
The subject was a schizophrenic patient with disorder onset since the age of 17 years and experienced three relapses so that he was admitted to Asylum

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Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by positive symptoms such as chaotic speech, delusions, hallucinations, cognitive impairment, perception, and other symptoms. Symptoms of schizophrenia will cause schizophrenic patients to experience decreased function or inability to live their lives, are severely hampered by their productivity and nearly cut off from other people (Davison, Neale, & Kring, 2006; Halgin & Withbourne, 2011; Bin, Zhang & Yiwei, 2014). A person with schizophrenia can be admitted to a mental hospital if the symptoms are causing difficulties for himself/herself and others. There is a decrease in self-function which has an impact on decreasing the social function of daily life which has an impact on the low self-esteem of individuals, this is because aspects of cognition related to experiences of social stress have implications for one’s evaluation of himself (Penn & Muesser, 1996; Scholten, van Honk, Aleman, & Kahn, 2006). The development of low self-esteem in schizophrenia is due to negative judgments about themselves and others

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