Schizophrenia: CBT & Family Therapy - Treatments Flashcards
What is the aim of CBT in treating schizophrenia?
To identify and challenge irrational/delusional thoughts to more rational ones
What type of negative thoughts may be identified in those with schizophrenia?
Paranoid delusions
In challenging the negative thoughts the client is encourage to develop?
More plausible/less threatening explanations
What is empirical disputing?
Where the client needs to provide evidence for their delusions/hallucinations
Empirical disputing helps a person
Understand that their delusions and hallucinations are not real
Providing plausible explanations for symptoms can help a person with schizophrenia by reducing …
Stress and anxiety
Disputing can help patients to realise that their beliefs are
Not based in reality so are less threatening
How can positive self talk help a person with schizophrenia?
They can use positive self statements to challenge auditory hallucinations
What did Jauhar find on his research on CBT and schizophrenia?
It can have a small but significant effect on both positive and negative symptoms
Why might CBT be less appropriate than drug treatment?
Requires motivation and commitment
Why might a combination treatment for CBT and drugs be more effective?
Drugs can help patient to motivate them to attend sessions and CBT to challenge thoughts and delusions
Why might CBT be more appropriate than drug treatment?
Avoids chemical dependence
What id family therapy based on?
The idea that family dysfunction can play a role in schizophrenia
What can family therapy reduce in families?
Expressed emotion and stress levels
What does family therapy aim to alter in families?
Relationship and communication patterns
