Family Psychosocial Interventions

Most families opt not to involve themselves because of the negative stigma of having a family member with schizophrenia. In addition to this there are many factors that affects attending family intervention due to work hours, lack of time, and transportation considerations and other outside factors (Bleecher, 2009 p 264). Although attending intervention can be very lengthy and time consuming family psychoeducation reduces a great percentage of hospitalizations. Overall, families who involve themselves have an overall better outcome for both the family and the ill member because they are helping the child’s social and emotional health (Bleecher, 2009). The effectiveness of family involvement of individuals with schizophrenia in both individual and family outcomes has been established is as an evidence based practice in the mental health field. There is a need for greater understanding of the barriers to involving families in order to move toward the eventual goal of increased practitioner and family collaboration. Although, there is no sufficient data that can prove this aside from a number of case studies further research must be done.

"All participants were clinicians licensed with a degree in clinical psychology, counseling, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, or social work (Kuller, 2010).” The participants were sent an email, which was received from international society for psychotherapy with schizophrenia, and in the email, they were asked to forward the email to anyone else who fits the criteria, which may be interested in helping with the survey. Everything was submitted electronically and anonymously. The study includes gender, age, type of degree and type of clinical license, years of professional experience, and national affiliation. The main purpose of the study was to assess the use and views of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Seven other treatments were also included; electroconvulsive therapy, family therapy, humanistic/existential psychotherapy, medication, narrative therapy, personal therapy, and psychodynamic psychotherapy. The two domains assessed in the treatment of schizophrenia was clinical practice and efficacy. Clinical practices were all yes or no questions. In the domain of efficacy, participant answered questions about the beliefs about efficacy and the research

People need help in various ways because when they are suffering with schizophrenia, they have difficulty with thinking, motivation, physical activities, activities of the daily living, relations, and communication skills. There are many useful therapies, for instance, individual psychotherapy helps the person to understand more about their illness and to better help with their daily lives. Rehabilitation helps them with problem solving support, social skills, and education in money management. They might be benefitted with improvement in cognitive and thinking skills. With the help of cognitive behavioral therapy the patient is helped to test and understand the reality of their thoughts and perceptions. With this therapy they get help on managing on not listening to the voices that tells them what to do, and most importantly to manage their symptoms overall. Personally, the most important therapy is family education, because it is important that all the family members are aware of the person suffering from schizophrenia. Their family should learn everything about this illness, they should also make sure that their loved ones follow their medication and treatments

     Psychosocial therapy is available for patients with schizophrenia. Psychosocial therapy focus on improving the patient’s functions. Rehabilitation includes a wide area of nonmedical interventions for these with

Many times with the medication people with schizophrenia can benefit from therapy. One type of therapy is individual therapy

Patients with schizophrenia can engage in conversation with their Mental Healthcare Professional on the benefits of CBT. Cognitive behavioral therapy will provide treatment plans that will enable the patient to live a successful productive life. According to Society of Clinical Psychology, providing the patient with collaborative therapeutic relations, a general understanding of their issues are just a few treatment options that are apart of the Cognitive behavioral therapy. It’s imperative that patients who have schizophrenia learn to live with or manage their symptoms and CBT will create goal setting strategies, offer ways to live among society, and coping skills

Schizophrenia is one out of several mental health conditions. The effect of this condition upon the individual ,carers, family and friends will be examined .Schizophrenia has numerous subtypes such as; paranoid ,catatonic ,hebephrenic, residual schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. However for the purpose of this essay focus will be on schizophrenia as a whole. The condition will be discussed in relation to the policies and guidelines which influence interventions of care and treatment. The condition will be explored In areas such as diagnosis, epidemiology, symptoms, prevention and recovery. Evidence based sources will be

Family Interventions are for teaching the family of a schizophrenic how to deal with the mental illness, the stress of their family member living with this illness and how to cope with medications and structure for the ill. Typically the family is left in the dark until the person with schizophrenia is being released from the hospital and still assumed that he or she will know what to do (Johnson, 2005).

Schizophrenia is a very serious mental health disorder. There is no cure for schizophrenia however treatments such as antipsychotics and psychotherapy can help to reduce the symptoms. Psychotherapy is not the most desired treatment for schizophrenia patients, but more of an optional treatment that works best with a good medication plan. Psychotherapy can help the patient to stay on their treatment plan, which is one of the biggest challenges for a schizophrenic patient. They learn much needed social skills and it helps them to achieve weekly goals and activities within their community. A trained therapist provides psychotherapy and includes advice, reassurance, education and reality testing into their sessions with each patient (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/schizophrenia/index.shtml).

An extended psychosocial intervention should be offered to patients with Schizophrenia that will incorporate cognitive-behavioural strategies that can reduce use, help cope cravings and stress, avoiding relapse and a discussion of attitude change towards substance use (Bennett, Bradshaw & Catalano, 2016).

Schizophrenia remains a prevalent mental disorder, which affects about 1% of the world’s populations (Olivares, Sermon, Hemels, & Schreiner, 2013). This psychiatric disorder is defined as a type of encumbering, incapacitating mental illness. Schizophrenia is known to affect 0.7% of the United States adult population (Lin, Wong, Offord, & Mirski, 2013). Schizophrenia disorder can become a weighty burden on patients as well as the families. According to (Ascher-Svanum, Novick, Haro, Bertsch, McDonnell, D., & Detke, 2013), schizophrenia is therefore defined as a chronic, relapsing psychiatric disorder that causes recurrent readmission into an inpatient psychiatric unit.

Different interventions to treat schizophrenia have been explored. There is no specific treatment that has proven to reduce symptoms definitively. Individualized treatments along with psychosocial models have yielded positive results in the reduction of psychosis. The use of

With a combination of antipsychotic medications, it is the most frequently implemented treatment offered to patients (Fenton, 2000). Individual psychotherapy confronts the human components of adaption and targets problems that follows such as: symptoms, relapse, denial, discouragement, treatment agreement, interpersonal relationships, and self-esteem. Since this approach’s attention is understanding the patient’s views, attitudes, ambitions, and experiences; clinicians will continue to implement this method (Fenton, 2000). Another approach for treatment of schizophrenia is family psychoeducation (FPE). This method has been established as one of the most effective psychosocial treatments developed. It integrates a patient’s family, caregivers, and friends into important and constant treatment and rehabilitation (McFarlane, 2016). In further detail, FPE consists of cognitive, behavioral, and helpful therapeutic features while utilizing a counseling structure. Overall, FPE has reduced the percentage of relapse for persons suffering from schizophrenia to 40% (McFarlane,

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness and safety issues surrounding pharmacological and psychological interventions as treatments for psychosis and schizophrenia in children, adolescents, and young adults. This study contrasted different medications and their impacts on patient outcomes - both positive and negative. Furthermore, head-to-head comparisons between medications were made; highlighting which medications had better significant impacts on patients. Also, contrasting psychological interventions taking in to consideration the benefits of family and individual cognitive behavioural therapy were examined in this study.

While we know schizophrenia is characterized by a multitude of distinctive and predictable symptoms, in some case, sufferers can still live a productive life and are able to hold down part-time and full time positions with a support system comprised of outside agencies designed to diminish the woes experienced by the abnormal behavior would otherwise