A comprehensive examination of psycho educational multifamily group therapy

Type :

Research papers

Pages :

18 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

08/13/2009

Category :

Social studies

Sub category :

Psychology

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Summary :

Introduction
History and theory
1. Hogarty's determination of the most significant causes of relapse
2. His approach to schizophrenia
3. His first trials with 100 participants
4. The final results
5. The differences between the McFarlane study and the Leff study
6. The most recent research
Clinical overview
1. Session 1: Understanding mood symptoms/syndromes
2. Session 2: Treatment and medications
3. Session 3: Treatment: of individual and family issues
4. Session 4: Communication skills
5. Session 5: Problem solving
6. Session 6: General family issues, review
Clinical practice
1. Psycho educational multifamily groups
2. The main goal of the first phase
3. The begining of the group
4. The second phase
Research and applicability
1. The basis of all of Miklowitz's treatments
2. The limitations of his research
3. The pilot study completed by Fristad
4. The highlights of the statistical analyses
Limitations and comparative discussion
Conclusion
References

Abstract

While the field of psychology has come a long way from locking the door and throwing away the key on people who carry a mental illness diagnosis, there is still a long way to go. Regardless of the research that has been done attempting to normalize these problems as medical diseases many people still cannot shake the notion that all mentally ill individuals are dangerous and unpredictable. psycho educational multifamily group therapy is a model of treatment that focuses on arming family members with facts to replace commonly accepted myths regarding mental illness and fostering supportive environments to normalize the experience of families with a member carrying a mental illness diagnosis.

For the purpose of application throughout this paper, the following paragraph is a basic outline of a case involving a family struggling with the diagnosis of one of its members with a mental illness.