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Family Therapy

Family therapy involves both the patient and the patient’s family and aims to improve the quality of communication within the family.

Family therapy

Family therapy

  • Family therapists use a range of approaches.
  • Some might see the family as the root cause of the condition (consistent with the schizophrenogenic mother and the double-bind theory).
  • But contemporary therapists are more likely to be concerned with reducing stress within the family than locating the causes of the condition within the family, particularly through reducing levels of expressed emotion.
__Pharoah et al. (2010)__

Pharoah et al. (2010)

  • Pharoah et al. (2010) identified a range of strategies that family therapists use to try to improve the functioning of the family with a member suffering from schizophrenia. These include:
    • Forming a therapeutic alliance with all family members.
    • Reducing the stress of caring for a relative with schizophrenia.
    • Improving the ability of the family to anticipate unresolved problems.
    • Reducing anger and guilt in family members.
Findings of __Pharoah et al. (2010)__

Findings of Pharoah et al. (2010)

  • Helping family members achieve a balance between caring for the individual with schizophrenia and maintaining their own lives is an important aspect of family therapy.
  • So is improving families’ beliefs about and behaviour towards schizophrenia.
  • According to Pharoah et al. (2010), these strategies work by reducing levels of stress and expressed emotion, while also increasing the chance of patients complying with medication.
  • This combination tends to result in reduced chance of relapse and hospital readmission.
Conclusions of __Pharoah et al. (2010)__

Conclusions of Pharoah et al. (2010)

  • Pharoah et al. reviewed evidence on the effectiveness of family therapy for families of schizophrenia sufferers.
  • They concluded that there is moderate evidence to show that family therapy significantly reduces hospital readmission over the course of the year and improves quality of life for patients and their families. -They also noted that results of different studies were inconsistent and that there were problems with the quality of some evidence.
  • Overall, the evidence base for family therapy remains weak.
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