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Booklets and Manuals

S.S.S. Booklets and Manuals:
(Available upon request)

Making Sense of Your World and the People In It
Reaching Out
Learning About Schizophrenia: Rays of Hope (English & French) by Schizophrenia Society of Canada
Just Ask, a handbook for teachers and counsellors

Schizophrenia FAQ's

Causes

Scientists are almost certain that schizophrenia has more than one cause, although this is not yet precisely understood. The Genetic Hypothesis: Genetic factors appear to be important in the development of schizophrenia, but they are not sufficient to explain the entire pattern of occurrence. If an illness is entirely caused by genetic factors then identical twins share the same risk of the illness. That is, if one identical twin has the illness, the other should too. In fact, in most studies of identical twins in which one twin has schizophrenia, only about half of the other twins are affected. A number of genes [...]

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