activities or games for schizophrenic patients?

Question

I'm a nursing student and I've just been assigned in the psychiatric ward of the hospital. Can anyone help me on what kinds of activities or games for schizophrenic and bipolar patients? Please I need help! I'm out of ideas!

Answer 1

Fun games for schizophenic groups:

1. Have everyone share their favorite hallucination.
2. List as many names in the group as you can remember. The first who comes up with 5 for each person wins.
3. "Who's got the knife?"
4. Everyone form a circle. Pass your daily medicines to the person on your right...
5. Costume party. Tell everyone to come dressed as Satan. (Lots of fun for everyone).

Answer 2

My mother is schizophrenic and has been in the psychiatric wards a few times. I don't recall her telling me of any games that were played, but I do remember she mentioned excersising, arts and crafts as activities that she got to partake in. She made a leather wallet and belts for both me and my Dad during one stay.

Answer 3

Schizophrenia is a disease that ebbs and flows. This means there are acute periods called "relapses" when patients experience a number of sensations that are an addition to their usual repertoire of feelings. Because they are additions, they are referred to as "positive symptoms" although they are far from positive in the sense of being wanted. They are the hallucinations, delusions and thought confusions which seem to return periodically, triggered, probably, by a variety of stresses. They respond, in general, to decreased stimuli, calm interactions, and antipsychotic medicine. Interspersed among the acute periods are various stages of convalescence during which patients frequently experience negative symptoms. These are subtractions from the normal repertoire of feelings such as loss of interest, loss of energy, loss of warmth, loss of humour. In general, these do not respond to medical interventions but require more complex psychological assistance.

1. Music therapy has a high level of subjective acceptance among patients.
2. No negative effects are recorded despite the therapy being introduced in the post-acute phase.
3. The positive therapeutic effects quoted are relaxation, activation, reduced anxiety, easier contact-making, and improve opportunities for emotional expression. The duration of the effects is limited.
4. The training-related concept and the clearly structuring behavior of the group leader are given a positive rating by the patients.

Musical games may be used to help clients learn to switch attention from one topic to another.

Answer 4

My uncle is Schizophrenic but I'm not so sure what most people like to do. so try painting or somekind of art.
my uncle made me a tye-dye shirt when I was 9 so just think a little more and something will hit u like a brick!

maybe even music type things.

Answer 5

I work with mentally ill patients that are institutionalized. For patients suffering from schizophrenia, play games with them that stimulate their thinking, such as Scrabble. For Bipolar patients encourage them to art class... It is the best v=creative outlet for them.

Answer 6

While I don't have any specific games/ activities to recommend, I do offer you a website you can visit..so that you can explore therapeutic activities for the population you serve.

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=Home_page

It is the ERIC Database, and it's free to register.

Answer 7

I don't know about your patients, but I have a few brain-bugs and stuff I do to relax includes knitting, drawing, making cloth toys/dolls, writing.

Answer 8

nothing that entails competition (OMG he won and now he's after me ...u get the idea)
try having them draw pictures of themselves but never the same person/thing.

Answer 9

Try hide the zanex.

Answer 10

They are not incapable why not ask them!!!!!
Perhaps you should rethink your career