AO3 Interactionist Approach SZ

• Strength: Support for effectiveness of combinations of treatment

  • Tarrier 2004
  • Medicine + CBT
  • Medication + Supportive counselling
  • Control group
  • found patients in combination showed less symptoms than those in control group but no difference in hospital readmission
• Weakness - Treatment-causation fallacy

  • people don't understand that just because combined bio+psych are more effective it does not mean that the interactionist approach to SZ is correct
  • like taking aspirin for a headache when the headache could be to do with dehydration not lack of aspirin
• Strength - Triggered further research

  • 1 gene vs 108 genetic combinations
  • additional elements now considered e.g. cannibas
  • more comprehensive understanding of SZ