Family Therapy

Question 1

What does family therapy do?

Answer 1

-alter relationship and communication patterns
-reduce expressed emotions and stress associated with risk of relapse

Question 2

How do they do this in 4 ways?

Answer 2

-improve beliefs
-reduce there stress
-decrease the guilt
-care but also maintain there own life.

Question 3

How long is family therapy and what does it consist of doing?

Answer 3

9 months to a year regularly
openly talk about patients symptoms progress and behaviour.

Question 4

What are the evaluations?

Answer 4

-RTS Leff et al
-openess

Question 5

Explain the RTS?

Answer 5

-compared family therapy to routine outpatient
-found in first 9m that 50% ROP relapsed compared to 8%
-effective in preventing relapse improve communication
reduce expressed emotions
-increasing validity

Question 6

Explain the evaluation of ‘openess’

Answer 6

-cause/reopen old conflict and family tentions
-reluctance to talk about or admit there behaviour
-less effective increased risk relapse

Question 7

Does not tackles root cause explanation?

Answer 7

-reduce stress of living in a family with sch
-for patients and family
-doesn’t eliminate the symptoms overall
-questions the appropriates and effected
-hogarty et al