pharoah et al - study support for family therapy

Question 1

what did pharoah et al conduct?

Answer 1

a review of all the studies that had investigated the effectiveness of giving family therapy alongside antipsychotic medication compared to just giving the patient antipsychotics without family therapy.

Question 2

what did all the studies that pharoah review have in common?

Answer 2

they all used random allocation and a control group meaning the studies had high validity and high reliability

Question 3

what did pharoah find?

Answer 3

that compared to the control group, patients given family therapy were more likely to take medication consistently and less likely to relapse into severe symptoms and go back to hospital. some studies indicated that family therapy improved the patient’s general mental health and reduced the number of symptoms they experienced compared to just taking the antipsychotic medication.
however, other studies reported that family therapy didn’t lead to improved mental health or to the number of symptom’s experienced.