Psychological Therapies
1. CBT
The aim of CBT is to identify faulty thinking patterns that are causing unwanted feelings or behavior and to learn to replace this thinking with more realistic and useful thoughts
a. Personal therapy
Aims to ameliorate a full spectrum of problems of patients who have been discharged from the hospital
Helps patients to avoid turning frustrations into catastrophies to reduce stress levels
        Effectiveness
      - improves social and emotional lives of schizophrenics
      - reduces rates of relapse since it reduces stress
      - unable to work without drug treatments
       - helps patients test delusional beliefs
         Appropriateness
       - helps both positive and negative symptoms
       - only works for people released from hospital
       - re-attribution therapy works for paranoid schizophrenics

Behavioral Therapies
Behavioral treatment focuses on operant conditioning- learning through reinforcement

   a. Token Economies
Help encourage people in psychiatric institutions to perform socially desirable behaviors
    Paul and Lentz
   Show how they treated schizophrenic patients by giving reinforcement for socially acceptable behaviors which reduced their psychotic behaviors
    They used behavior modification techniques to help learn new ways to behave
         Evaluation
      - Superficiality
      - Reductionist
      - Low ecological validity
      - Ethical issues

	Created by joannahillary about 11 years ago

Psyhology Note on Schizophrenia, created by joannahillary on 09/10/2013.