About the lecture

In this lecture, we think about the psychological treatments available to those who suffer from schizophrenia, focusing in particular on: (i) family therapy and how the different treatments offered under this umbrella, including psychoeducation, relative groups therapy and personal therapy, can benefit schizophrenia sufferers; (ii) cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) as a treatment that can help schizophrenia sufferers make sense of their deluded thoughts and hallucinations; (iii) token economies as a behavioural approach to treating schizophrenia which aims to alleviate symptoms by rewarding patients for desired behaviours.

About the lecturer

Mr Kevin Silber is a senior lecturer at the University of Derby where he primarily teaches biological psychology modules. Mr Silber is also an AQA A-Level examiner and is involved in authoring texts for A-Level psychology. Having started life as a neuroscientist, Mr Silber’s research interests still lie in biologically oriented topics. However, his main research interest is now focused on body image. Some of Mr Silber’s recent publications include ‘Working memory in children: A developmental approach to the phonological coding of pictorial material’ (2011) and ‘Sexual orientation and the sleep-wake cycle: A preliminary investigation’ (2000).