Literature Review: The Family Therapy and Non-Family Therapy in Schizophrenia Patients

摘要

Family therapy is a type of therapy used to treat schizophrenia patients and proven to help many patients. Family therapy can ease the burden of families who have family members with mental disorders. The mental health world requires more therapeutic methods to deal with individuals with mental disorders. Various development methods have been carried out to reduce the problems experienced by schizophrenia patients. This article discusses the comparison of the effectiveness of family therapy and non-family therapy in treating schizophrenic patients with various positive and negative symptoms. By using the literature review technique, the study focused on agreement and inequality in several previous studies conducted on schizophrenia patients, both outpatients or patients with acute symptoms. Both family therapy and non-family therapy show similar results on treatment towards Psychotherapy sufferers, and both are effectively applied to schizophrenia patients.