Review
"In this important, academically sound and fascinating volume we see the fruits of a decade's study. Dr. Falloon describes four major aims: to compare behavioural family therapy and individual supportive psychotherapy after the treatment of a florid exacerbation in patients who lived in a stressful family environment; to assess the changed functioning of family members; to conduct and analysis of the costs of the two approaches; and to analyse the variables that might influence outcome. There seems, despite suggestions to the contrary of earlier work, to be a series of important advantages accruing from the factual education and enchanced problem-solving skills in families helped to cope with a schitzophrenia member. The social benefits for the family were combined with improved functioning of their patient when compared with individual treatment. The authors provide an admirable review of the literature, keep well away from excessive enthusiasm and provide an elegant and instructive monograph that merits attention and respect from colleagues of all grades of seniority. And like all important research, it raises more fascinating problems for the future." -- The British Journal of Psychiatry, September 1986
"This slim volume impressively responds to growing concern over an unresolved problem: schitzophrenia remains inadequately treated with neuroleptic medication alone... Falloon and his colleagues have brilliantly demonstrated that treatment results can be improved through well-structured programs of 'family management,' which in his work means a sophisticated combination of family psychoeduction and behavioral family therapy." -- American Journal of Psychiatry, July 1987
