3) Schizophrenia - Psychological Therapies Flashcards
(10 cards)
Which therapies are used for the treatment of schizophrenia?
CBT and Family Therapy
Which treatment is used for the management of schizophrenia?
Token economies
What is CBT?
- Involves identifying and challenging irrational thoughts.
What does CBT stand for?
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
What is Family Therapy?
- Therapy carried it with some/all family members with the aim of improving communication and reduce the stress of living as a family.
- Particularly levels of expressed emotion
Which psychological explanations does family therapy link to?
- Double bind
- Schizophrenogenic mother
Give three strategies used in family therapy.
- Reducing the stress of caring for a relative with schizophrenia.
- Improving the ability for the family to anticipate and solve problems.
- Reduction of anger and guilt in family members.
How do token economies work in managing schizophrenia?
- Help improve the quality of life in a person who has been institutionalised in places such as hospitals.
Give a limitation for the effectiveness of psychological treatments.
P - There is support for the benefits of psychological treatments.
E - Pharoah et al reviewed the evidence for the effectiveness of family therapies.
E - It was concluded that there is moderate evidence to show that family therapy significantly reduces hospital readmission over the course of a year and improves quality of life for individuals.
Although the results of different studies were inconsistent and lacked quality meaning that the evidence for family therapies is weak.
E - Jauhar et al reviewed 34 studies of CBT for schizophrenia and found that it has a significant but fairly small effect on both positive and negative symptoms.
E - With CBT, out of 3 studies only 1 showed an improvement in symptoms.
L - Overall there is some evidence which supports psychological therapies but schizophrenia is still one of the harder mental problems to treat.
Give a limitation to treatments in relation to quality of life.
P - A limitation of psychological treatments is that they improve quality of life for patients but are not cures.
E - CBT helps someone make sense and challenge their symptoms
Family therapy reduces stress of living in a family, for themselves and their family members.
Token economies help by improving their way of living to integrate themselves more into society.
E - They help a person deal with schizophrenia, not cure it.
