Family Therapy Schizophrenia
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- Family therapy has a number of aims such as reducing levels of express emotion (shouting, fighting, hostility) which in turn may reduce relapse rates. This is the scene above.Other ways to help the patient and their family is based on the work of Pharoah including the following:
- Helps family members achieve a balance between caring for the individual and maintaining their own lives. It reduces anger and guilt, it improves their ability to anticipate and solve problems and forms a therapeutic alliance
- Families taught to have weekly family meetings solving problems on family and individual goals, resolve conflicts between members, and pinpoint stressors
- Preliminary analysis:Through interviews and observation the therapist identifies strengths and weaknesses of family members and identifies problem behaviours
- Information transfer:Teaching the patient and the family the actual facts about the illness, its causes, the influence of drug abuse, and the effect of stress and guilt
- Communication skills training:Teach the family to listen, to express emotions and to discuss things. Additional communication skills are taught, such as "compromise and negotiation", and "requesting a time out". This is mainly aimed at lowering expressed emotion
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