Schizophrenia is a long-term mental illness characterized by periods of acute psychosis and remission. Schizophrenia can be found in every other person in the world, depending on the age group in which the measurement was made. The disease occurs more often in men. Schizophrenia is caused by genetic and environmental factors. Schizophrenia is a disease that occurs gradually, the patient and the environment often don’t recognize the presence of the disease and changes in the patient's behavior. Schizophrenia symptoms are divided into a fivedimensional model that includes positive, negative, cognitive, depressive and aggressively hostile symptoms. Schizophrenia is divided into paranoid type, disorganized type, catatonic type, undifferentiated type, residual type, post-schizophrenic depression and schizophrenia simplex. In the treatment of schizophrenic psychoses, the most common pharmacological treatment are antipsychotics. The application of non-pharmacological treatment, psychotherapy, and physical therapy is also represented. By applying modern methods of treating schizophrenic psychoses, patients are in 90% of cases able to live outside of some of the institutions. Nowadays, there are many modern ways of treatment, for the entire disease or for individual symptoms. Family or caregiver education is important when it comes to patients, it includes information and recommendations about patients, treatment, exercises and procedures that are performed.