Interactionist model to treating schiz evaluation

Question 1

Simply evaluate the interactionist model for treating schizophrenia

Answer 1

✔Evidence

✘Treatment-causation fallacy

Question 2

Explain ‘✔Evidence’

Answer 2

There is support from studies combining the effectiveness of combinationsof biological and psychological treatments rather than biological treatments alone
Tarrier found that patients who underwent a combination of drugs and psychological treatment showed lower symptoms of schizophrenia.
This supports the idea of combining treatments to increase its effectiveness, using an interactionist approach towards treatment means it develops a superior treatment than only using antipsychotics.

Question 3

Explain ‘✘Treatment-causation fallacy’

Answer 3

Just because a combination of treatments helps to alliviate symptoms, we cannot assume that what has been treated was the origional cause of schizophrenic symptoms in the first place.