Welcome to the 22nd WCP Congress Program Scheduling

Recovery in schizophrenia is receiving increasing attention. Part of the increased focus is based on the recent working criteria for clinical remission in schizophrenia and the realization that many people with schizophrenia meet these criteria for remission. I this presentation we try to learn the terminology and practical difficulties associated with remission. Recovery is often viewed as a process and not an outcome, and the multiple definitions of recovery that have been advanced are reviewed. This process may involve improvements in different elements of the illness at different time periods. For instance, psychotic symptoms are often responsive early in the course of illness, while improvements in everyday functioning may take longer to achieve. Comorbidities are an important consideration, in terms of both prevention as well as treatment, and some do not develop until later in the illness course.