Family theraphy evaluation

Question 1

Simply evaluate family therapy

Answer 1

✔Evidence for the effectiveness - Xiong
✔More cost effective than CBT
✘Ethical issues
✘Doesn’t cure schizophrenia

Question 2

Explain ‘✔Evidence for the effectiveness - Xiong’

Answer 2

Xiong et al randomly allocated 63 Chinese students either to standard drug care or drugs plus family therapy and found after 1 year 61% of the drugs alone schizophrenics had relapsed compared with 33% of drug and therapy relapsing

Question 3

Explain ‘✔More cost effective than CBT’

Answer 3

It decreases relapse rates, lowering the need for hospitalisation alone with educating family members to help manage a patients mediation regime, decreasing the needs for doctors to do this

Question 4

Explain ‘✘Ethical issues’

Answer 4

Esentially placing the blame of the cause of schizophrenia on the family members, meaning they recieve the trauma of recieving the blame

Question 5

Explain ‘✘Doesn’t cure schizophrenia’

Answer 5

Family theraphy helps reduce the stress of living with schizophrenia however it only focuses on treating stress in the family (which may act as a trigger for the disorder) but does not actually treat the underlying cause