A single system researh design on the effectiveness of behavioral family therapy on the reduction of early warning signs of acute onset symptoms of schizophrenia, 1994

Williams, Gina C. W.

1990-1999

Behavioral family therapy will decrease the severity of early warning signs being reported by the patient with an Axis I diagnosis of schizophrenia. This study was conducted to find out what effect, if any, behavioral family therapy would have on the reduction in severity of early warning signs reported by a person with schizophrenia currently involved in outpatient treatment. The research design employed in this study was an A-B single subject research design. One of the main reasons this design was utilized were the time constraints within which the author had to work. Findings supported a decline in the severity of early warning signs that were sustained for a long period of time. However, it cannot be safely assumed that the intervention accounted for the change which occurred in the reporting behavior.

text

application/pdf

1994-05-01

thesis

Master of Science (MS)

Clark Atlanta University

School of Social Work, Social Work and Public Health

Horton, Gale

Clark Atlanta University

Georgia--Atlanta

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1994_williams_gina_c_w