Family Therapy

Family therapy aims to address which type of family dysfunction?

• Schizophrenogenic Mother

• Double-Bind

• Expressed Emotion

Which of these individuals are invited to family therapy?

• Relatives

• Partners

• Significant friends

• All of these

Before family therapy, family members first attend a psycho-education workshop to learn about schizophrenia.

• True

• False

Roughly how many group therapy sessions are attended?

• 5

• 10

• 20

• 50

Odd one out: which of these is not part of family therapy?

• Learning coping skills

• Accepting responsibility for patient's disorder

• Improving communication

• Learning to identify signs of relapse

According to Pharoah et al, which of these improves more with family therapy than medication? Select all that apply.

• Compliance with medication

• Mental state

• Social functioning

• Risk of relapse

According to Lobban et al, what % of studies showed family therapy had a positive impact on levels of EE?

• 50%

• 60%

• 70%

What kind of research were Pharoah et al & Lobban et al?

• Observations

• Longitudinal

• Case Studies

• Meta-Analysis

According to Wu et al, what did a lot of the "supporting studies" fail to do?

• Randomly sample ppts

• Randomly allocate ppts

• Manipulate the IV

What other procedure did the studies fail to use?

• Counterbalancing

• Single-blind

• Double-blind