Psychological Therapies - Family Therapy Flashcards
What are the 2 aims of family therapy?
Reduces negative emotions
- Aims to reduce the level of high negative emotions, reducing overall stress, reducing relapse rates.
Improves the family’s ability to help
- Can be helped to improve their understanding and beliefs about it. Can help the family to achieve a balance between caring and having their own lives.
What is stage 1 of family therapy?
Basic information sharing and providing emotional and practical support
What is stage 2 of family therapy?
Identifying resources of what family members can/cannot offer.
What is stage 3 of family therapy?
Encourage mutual understanding, creating a safe space for all members to express their feelings.
What is stage 4 of family therapy?
Identifying unhelpful patterns of behaviour?
What is stage 5 of family therapy?
Skills training, such as stress management techniques
What is stage 6 of family therapy?
Relapse prevention training.
What is stage 7 of family therapy?
Maintenance for future.
What is the evaluation - McFarlane?
McFarlane concluded family therapy is effective for Sz - relapse rates reduced by 50-60%. It is particularly promising when mental health initially starts to decline. NICE recommends family therapy.
What is the evaluation - Barrowclough?
Therapy is not just for the patient but for the families that provide the bulk of the care for people with Sz.
What is the evaluation - Economic benefits?
Family therapy reduces relapse rates and makes families better able to provide the bulk of care so it has economic benefits. This reduces the amount of time patients need to spend in hospital and thus costs less to the economy.
