Sz- Non-Biological Treatment Flashcards
What is ACT?
Assertive Community Treatment
What is the aim of ACT?
Help clients identify irrational thoughts and to try and change them. Meet personal goals
What does ACT involves?
A holistic treatment that involves a team providing care for people who have SZ with frequent relapses
The team helps plan intervention, carry them out, checking the response and change intervention if needed.
How did Nishio et al prove ACT to be an effective treatment?
Looked at 41 patients in Japan who had sever mental illness.
After ACT patients saw a significant decrease in the frequency of medication.
What is a positive and negative of Nishio study?
+ Reliable finding as several measures over a 1 year period
- ethnocentric- Japan only and not a huge sample size
- did not look at SZ
How did Harvey et al prove against ACT being an effective treatment?
He focused on the outcomes for staff and found staff had high levels of emotional exhaustion, burntout and stress. Treatment will be ineffectiv if staff are run out.`
How is ACT a strength for for drug resistant patients?
It is useful to have a seond line of therapy to offer to those who dont respong to drugs
Why might ACT be a more effective treatment?
It involves therapy, home visists, social work and drug therapy. The combination of several treatments is likely to address the individual needs of patiens with SZ.
What is a weakness of ACT?
Requires a lot of staffing and expertise which is hard to find, especially in deprived areas which is where SZ is more common
