Family therapy

• Family therapy

  Based of idea that family dysfunction can lead to an increase risk of relapse in people

  Aim is to reduce conflict and high emotion amongst family members

  Helping form alliances, reduce burden of care

  Used alongside other treatments
• Strengths

  Experienced some success

  Pilling et al found family therapy reduced the rate of réadmission in parents

  Useful for who lacks insight into own condition
• Weakness

  Getting informed consent from all the family is hard

  Socially sensitive needs to be neat aged and open to changing behaviour