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In their report on combined pharmacological and psychosocial maintenance treatment of schizophrenia, Schooler et al¹ concluded that ". . .our study lends no support to the provision of an intervention involving home visits or training in communication and problem-solving skills." However, it must be pointed out that their study was neither an experimental test nor an indictment of family intervention. Moreover, while their study attempted to isolate the specific elements that differentiated 2 active family intervention conditions, we wish to forestall either premature acceptance or overgeneralization of their conclusions with the following points of clarification.

It is important to remember that the study was designed as an experimental test only of those specific elements Schooler and colleagues singled out; that is, family training in communication and problem-solving skills. The home visits, in and of themselves, seem unlikely to have had a major effect apart from the activities that took place . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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