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13.3 Reducing Disorder by Changing the Social Situation
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Explain the advantages of group therapy and self-help groups for treating disorder.
- Evaluate the procedures and goals of community mental health services.
Although the individual therapies that we have discussed so far in this chapter focus primarily on
the psychological and biological aspects of the bio-psycho-social model of disorder, the social
dimension is never out of the picture. Therapists understand that disorder is caused, and
potentially prevented, in large part by the people with whom we interact. A person with
schizophrenia does not live in a vacuum. He interacts with his family members and with the
other members of the community, and the behavior of those people may influence his disease.
And depression and anxiety are created primarily by the affected individual’s perceptions (and
misperceptions) of the important people around them. Thus prevention and treatment are
influenced in large part by the social context in which the person is living.