3) Schizophrenia - Psychological Therapies Flashcards
Which therapies are used for the treatment of schizophrenia?
CBT and Family Therapy
Which treatment is used for the management of schizophrenia?
Token economies
What is CBT?
- Involves identifying and challenging irrational thoughts.
What does CBT stand for?
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
What is Family Therapy?
- Therapy carried it with some/all family members with the aim of improving communication and reduce the stress of living as a family.
- Particularly levels of expressed emotion
Which psychological explanations does family therapy link to?
- Double bind
- Schizophrenogenic mother
Give three strategies used in family therapy.
- Reducing the stress of caring for a relative with schizophrenia.
- Improving the ability for the family to anticipate and solve problems.
- Reduction of anger and guilt in family members.
How do token economies work in managing schizophrenia?
- Help improve the quality of life in a person who has been institutionalised in places such as hospitals.
Give a limitation for the effectiveness of psychological treatments.
P - There is support for the benefits of psychological treatments.
E - Pharoah et al reviewed the evidence for the effectiveness of family therapies.
E - It was concluded that there is moderate evidence to show that family therapy significantly reduces hospital readmission over the course of a year and improves quality of life for individuals.
Although the results of different studies were inconsistent and lacked quality meaning that the evidence for family therapies is weak.
E - Jauhar et al reviewed 34 studies of CBT for schizophrenia and found that it has a significant but fairly small effect on both positive and negative symptoms.
E - With CBT, out of 3 studies only 1 showed an improvement in symptoms.
L - Overall there is some evidence which supports psychological therapies but schizophrenia is still one of the harder mental problems to treat.
Give a limitation to treatments in relation to quality of life.
P - A limitation of psychological treatments is that they improve quality of life for patients but are not cures.
E - CBT helps someone make sense and challenge their symptoms
Family therapy reduces stress of living in a family, for themselves and their family members.
Token economies help by improving their way of living to integrate themselves more into society.
E - They help a person deal with schizophrenia, not cure it.
