Psychological therapies for schizophrenia

Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)

• Involves helping patients to identify irrational thoughts and trying to change them
• Patients can be helped to make sense of how their delusions and hallucinations impact their feelings and behaviour
• Delusions can be challenged so that a patient can come to learn that their beliefs are not based on reality

Family therapy

• Aims to improve the quality of communication and interaction between family members
• Aims to reduce levels of expressed emotion

Fiona Pharaoh et al (2010) identified a range of strategies by which family therapists aim to improve…