What are the types of psychosocial therapy can be used to treat schizophrenia?
• Behavior Therapy: helps patients identify and change behaviors. Patients are motivated to modify their behavior through positive reinforcement (i.e., praise or tokens that can be redeemed for hospital privileges • Family-oriented therapy: involves surrounding patients with a supportive environment so they are able to trust others. Family therapists can help the family and patient understand schizophrenia, encouraging them to discuss psychotic episodes. • Group Therapy: focuses on real-life problems and relationships, easing patient feelings of isolation, and providing a basis for reality testing, and groups that focus on support, rather than interpretation, appear to be most helpful. • Cognitive Therapy: teaches patients how thinking patterns can distort their view of the world. It helps patients avoid destructive ways of thinking by making them more aware of their cognitive distortions and errors in judgment. • Individual Psychotherapy: often utilized for people with schizophrenia l
