Interactionist approach

• Interactionist approach

  Uses combination of approaches to explain behaviour
• Interactionist approach

  Holistic approach emphasises treatment should be based on the whole and should involve biological, chemical and behavioural therapies
• Interactionist approach

  • Medication only treats symptoms
  • Patients forget to take drugs
  • Other treatments used along side therapies
• Strengths of interactionist approach

  • Not one treatment works exclusively to treat or manage schiz it makes sense to use multiple
  • Psych therapies with drugs good as it allows patient to manage behaviours but give skills to tackle faulty cognition
• Weaknesses of interactionist approach

  • Difficult to know if treatment is working
  • People with severe symptoms of schiz need higher levels of medication
  • Treatments need to be appropriate and flexible to needs of patient
  • Get very complicated and time-consuming to take drugs and partake in multiple therapies