CBT

• Appropriateness

  • Allows patients to be in control
  • Long term treatment strategies
  • Provides ways of challenging dysfunctional thought processes.
• However point of appropriateness

  • Willingness to engage
  • Hallucinations and delusions
  • Practical issues- drop out
• Effectiveness

  Philing et al (2002)- Concluded that CBT was effective in improving mental state of patients both during treatment and at a follow up.