PY4 Treatments of Schizophrenia
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- Created on: 13-01-13 14:34
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- Treatments of Schizophrenia
- Psychological
- CBT
- Explain Sch as a fault with thought processes.
- Therefore aim to change any fault and replace with corrective functioning
- Frith
- Suggested patients who hear voices are just hearing their own misinterpreting inner thoughts
- Procedure
- Encouraged to trace back to the origins of their symptoms evaluate their behaviour and hallucinations on their validity
- Evaluate
- Drury
- Reduction of positive symptoms and 20-50% reduction in recovery time when combined with antipsychotic medicine
- Suggests that CBT may be most effective when symptoms are alleviated to allow for a clearer thought procedure
- Reduction of positive symptoms and 20-50% reduction in recovery time when combined with antipsychotic medicine
- Kulpers
- Diifficult to analyse CBT, predominantly conducted alongside anti-psychotic drugs
- Although generaaly seems effective
- Kingdom & Kirchen
- CBT unsuitable for most patients because they would not fully engage with the study
- Younger more suitable than older.
- Must have open mind and willingness to change
- Younger more suitable than older.
- CBT unsuitable for most patients because they would not fully engage with the study
- Bentall et al
- Suggested CBT to be most effective for Patents in their first episode of Sch
- CBT as first action protocol against Sch/ Patterns less habitual
- Suggested CBT to be most effective for Patents in their first episode of Sch
- Much more lengthy that ECT, More Costly
- Sometimes not beneficial at all. Thought processes hard to identify with patient
- Drury
- Explain Sch as a fault with thought processes.
- CBT
- Physiological
- Psychological
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