Bradshaw

Question 1

What is the aim of Bradshaw?

Answer 1

If CBT was effective to treat Schizophrenia

Question 2

What is the sample of Bradshaw?

Answer 2

Case study of Carol aged 26

First person in her family to have Atypical for SZ

Question 3

What did Carol have initially (Bradshaw)?

Answer 3

Delusions

Hallucinations

30/100 on global functioning

Question 4

What was the first stage of Bradshaw?

Answer 4

Building a rapport with therapist and Carol

Question 5

What was the second stage of Bradshaw?

Answer 5

Understanding how CBT works for Carol

Question 6

What was the third stage of Bradshaw?

Answer 6

Undergoing CBT:
managing stress
challenging her thoughts
increasing activities

Practiced this in the real world

Question 7

What happened to Carol in the final 3 months (Bradshaw)?

Answer 7

Did not go to therapy sessions

Question 8

When was Carol measured (Bradshaw)?

Answer 8

At the beginning, the end, 6 months later, 1 year later

Question 9

How was Carol measured (Bradshaw)?

Answer 9

Global functioning

How well she met her targets

Finding a job

Symptom severity

Number of
hospitalisations

Question 10

What is a weakness of Bradshaw’s sample?

Answer 10

Small, uses unique individual

Question 11

What are the results of Bradshaw?

Answer 11

RFS was stable at 27 after 1 year (6 at the start)

GPI score of 1 (few symptoms present, reported little distress)

Goal attainment scale increased from 19.85 to 80.15

Days in hospital (in the previous 3 months) dropped to 0 from 60

Question 12

Why is it good that Bradshaw did a longitudinal study?

Answer 12

Gathers lots of depth and detail so shows development and change about her functioning with Schizophrenia following CBT

Question 13

Why is it good that Bradshaw was an indepth qualitative and quantitative study?

Answer 13

We get lots of understanding about her experiences with schizophrenia and CBT

Question 14

Why is a weakness that Bradshaw did a longitudinal study?

Answer 14

Difficult to repeat as they take a long time to conduct so we can’t effectively test to see if the results about CBT and schizophrenia are reliable

Question 15

Why is it good that Bradshaw used triangulation of data?

Answer 15

Various methods being used e.g. the goal attainment scale and number of hospitalisations so results from the different measures of her wellbeing during
the CBT to be used to check each other and gain concurrent validity

Question 16

How does Bradshaw’s results help us?

Answer 16

Shows that CBT effective for Schizophrenia and Carol saw the benefits

Question 17

Why is using a case study a weakness for Bradshaw?

Answer 17

Typically naturally occurring circumstances where it can be affected by many extraneous variables that may affect validity e.g. events and situations going on in Carol’s life
could’ve impacted on the effectiveness of the CBT

Question 18

Why is it good that Bradshaw used a case study?

Answer 18

Naturally occurring case of a woman with CBT undergoing treatment which
means no harm was actively done to her (in fact the study helped her recovery)

Question 19

What can we do with the quantitative data gathered from Bradshaw e.g. number of hospitalisations?

Answer 19

Can be analysed more easily/objectively and can be statistically analysed to see effectiveness of CBT