Explain The Use Of One Psychological Therapy As Ap

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Explain the use of one psychological therapy as applied to the treatment of Schizophrenia Many sufferers of schizophrenia turn to psychotherapies such as CBT. Cognitive-Behavioural-Therapy (CBT) is largely founded in the cognitive approach to psychopathology, which arose in the 1950's. CBT assumes that the schizophrenia is a maladaptive behaviour, caused by beliefs that have been distorted, either by someone or something and delusions are often seen as caused by distorted interpretations of events. In CBT, patients are usually prompted to trace the genesis of their symptoms, so as to get a grasp of how they may have occurred and how they might be treated and are then encouraged to evaluate any internal voices they may hear, delusions or hallucinations and so on. As their behaviour is thought to stem from distorted beliefs, they are prompted to find alternative patterns or ways of thinking to their maladaptive one. CBT generally tries to generate less distressing symptoms to arise, rather than completely eradicating the symptoms, as some, in particular negative symptoms, may well prove beneficial. The idea is the negative symptoms could arise as a way of preventing the sufferer from making positive symptoms worse or to ensure that they do receive help. In order to test whether CBT works, outcome studies following the treatments have been conducted, and in such one made by Drury et al. (1996), it was found that there had been a reduction in positive symptoms, as well as a 20-25% reduction in recovery time, whose CBT treatment had been combined with antipsychotics. Lower drop-out rates were also recorded which could also be behind the more successful treatment. Studies generally support the CBT treatment, as evidenced by Gould et al., whose meta-analysis showed that CBT generally tends to work, but unfortunately, most CBT is done in combination with
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