CBTp evaluation

• Strength - Supporting evidence - Jauhar et al (2014)

  Reviewed result of 34 studies of CBTp, concluding that it has a significant but fairly small effect on symptoms

  However, this is only modest supporting evidence
• Strength - Supporting evidence

  Many small scale studies where patients are compared before and after psychological treatment have found more positive results

  However, these studies often lack control groups, or if there is one, they’re not often randomly allocated to treatment and control conditions

  Where these studies are included in reviews, conclusions are generally more optimistic than those that strictly control which studies are included
• Eval - Treatments improve QoL but do not cure

  CBT helps to allow a person to make sense and in some cases challenge some of their symptoms

  Drug therapy and biological approaches have a higher chance of reducing the severity of symptoms
• Weakness - Ethical issues

  CBT may involve challenging someone’s paranoia, but at what point does this interfere with someone’s freedom of thought

  Challenging a patients beliefs in a highly controlling government, can easily stray into modifying their politics

  However, no side effects which could accompany drug therapy