Family therapy Flashcards
What is family therapy?
what is aim?
what does some therapist see?
what is particulary aim to reduce?
Therapy that takes place with family rather than individual client.
aim: improve the quality of communication and interaction between family members.
- some therapist see family as the root cause of schizophrenia and attempt to reduce stress within the family that may contribute to a person relapse.
- in particular they aim to reduce level of ee.
Who is psychologist for family therapy?
what are 6 ways they do this?
Pharaoh et al 2010
- identified strategies to improve functioning of family with a member experiencing schizophrenia.
- form a therapeutic alliance with all family members.
- reducing the stress of caring for a person with schizophrenia
- improving the ability of family to anticipate and solve problems.
- reduction of anger and guilt in family members
- helping families achieve the balance of caring for schizophrenic and maintain their own lives.
- improving families beliefs and behaviour towards schizophrenia.
pharaoh suggest that these work as reduce level of stress and emotion and increasing the chances of people complying with medication. this combination reduces the likelihood of relapse and re admission.
what is one benefit of family therapy
cost effective
NICE in 2009 compared antipsychotic drugs to family therapy and found when family had family therapy they were less likely going to back to hospital and relapse. this reduce the cost of having to look after these patients and save nhs money in employing therapist.
what is limitation of family therapy
studies investigating family therapy lack validity and reliability.
for in example pharaoh review they only looked at studies that used random allocation and control groups. however many studies that said they used random allocation had not actually used it this meant that participant variables were not controlled for e.g participants in family therapy may already have lower stress response compared to the control group and this confounding variable.
a strength of family therpay
study to support.
pharaoh et al reviewed combing family therapy and taking medication compared to only taking medication. found that patients who were given family therapy were more likely going to take the medication consistently and less likely to relapse.
