Multifamily group treatment for schizophrenia.
@article{Stuart2009MultifamilyGT, title={Multifamily group treatment for schizophrenia.}, author={Barbara K. Stuart and Danielle Schlosser}, journal={International journal of group psychotherapy}, year={2009}, volume={59 3}, pages={ 435-40 } }
Multifamily group treatment (MFGT) is an evidence-based intervention for treating persons with severe mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, and their families that integrates psychoeducation and behavioral family therapy in a multiple-family group format. Although multifamily group treatment was first pioneered more than half a century ago by Laqueur (Laqueur et al., 1964), only in the past 15 years has a coherent theoretical model and empirical evidence for its effectiveness been… CONTINUE READING
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