According to the National Institute of Mental Health (2010), approximately 1.1% of the US population suffers from schizophrenia in a given year. Schizophrenia is a severe and chronic brain disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, flat affect, movement disorders, social withdrawal, and grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Often, beneath these phenomena lie experiences of loneliness, alienation, low self-esteem, and demoralization (Smith, 1999). Schizophrenia has pervasive social, economic, and personal impacts on those diagnosed, as well as their families and society in general; and in particular, our mental health and social welfare systems (Maxmen & Ward, 1995). Schizophrenic patients occupy one half of all mental health hospital beds in the USA (Sadock & Sadock, 2008).