Treatment
DIAGNOSIS: SCHIZOPHRENIA
TREATMENT: MULTI-FAMILY GROUP FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA
BRIEF SUMMARY
Basic Description: "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 available to clinicians."
TREATMENT RESOURCES
BOOKS
Multifamily groups in the treatment of severe psychiatric disorders (McFarlane, 2004)
CRITICAL STUDIES
Multiple-family group treatment for English-and Vietnamese-speaking families living with schizophrenia (Bradley et al., 2006)
Burlingame, G. M., Svien, H., Hoppe, L., Hunt, I., & Rosendahl, J. (2020). Group therapy for schizophrenia: A meta-analysis (Burlingame et al., 2020)
One-year follow-up of a multiple-family-group intervention for Chinese families of patients with schizophrenia (Chien & Chan, 2004)
A family psychoeducation group program for Chinese people with schizophrenia in Hong Kong (Chien & Wong, 2007)
The ability of multifamily groups to improve treatment adherence in Mexican Americans with schizophrenia (Kopelowicz et al., 2012)
A memorial tribute: Patient functioning and family burden in a controlled, real-world trial of family psychoeducation for schizophrenia (Magliano et al., 2006)