P: Has economic benefits

E: research has shown that family therapy has helped to significantly reduce relapse rates from 40% with drug therapy to 20% with family therapy

E: This can provide economic benefits and be highly cost-efficient as a lower relapse rate means patients are using fewer hospital beds and resources and may be more able to work

P: There are practical issues with psychological therapies

E: This is because they can often take an extended period e.g. a year. As a result, families may drop out of therapy, so the effectiveness may depend on the rapport the therapist can build with the family.

E: this can be time-consuming especially if the family feel attacked or judged. Therefore, this may not be the most effective method due to how time-consuming it is and perhaps faster methods such as drugs can be argued to be more effective.

P: There are individual differences so CBT may not be effective for everyone with schizophrenia some patients might feel judged by the therapist or overwhelmed by the amount of work that has to be done considering that they had given homework on top of sessions.

E: Therefore, there are individual differences in patients' experiences of CBT so the effectiveness will vary between individuals

P: Other treatments may be more effective and cost-efficient

E: for example, drug therapies E.G antipsychotics treat the biological causes of schizophrenia and are also able to be mass produced. This makes it cheaper than CBT as it requires a trained specialist.

E: This challenge is where CBT is the most effective way of treating schizophrenia in comparison to drug therapies