family therapy

Question 1

family therapy

Answer 1

carried out by members of the family

Question 2

aims

Answer 2

-educate
-improve communication
-teach patients and carers more effective stress management techniques

Question 3

methods used (pharaoh et al, 2010)

Answer 3

-helps achieve a balance between caring for a patient and their own life
-reduces anger and guilt
-taught to have weekly meetings (aim of solving problems and individual goals, resolve conflict and pinpoint stressors)

Question 4

evidence for effectiveness

Answer 4

-relapse rates reduced by 50-60%
-moderate evidence to reduce relapse rates and hospital readmission but their were varying quality of research
explain - may improve quality of life (equips patients with skills) but doesn’t provide a cure for SZ

Question 5

benefits to the whole family

Answer 5

-strengthens family function
-reduced negative impact on the patient
-patients SZ will affect the family less

Question 6

reductionism

Answer 6

-ignore genetics (doesn’t establish a link between dopamine and SZ just environmental factors)
-cant be used on its own (relapse inly reduced by 50-60%, doesn’t address dopamines effects on the brain and emotions)