BACKGROUND With continued increases in smartphone ownership, researchers and clinicians are investigating the use of this technology to enhance the management of chronic illnesses such as bipolar disorder (BD). Smartphones can be used to deliver interventions and psychoeducation, supplement treatment, and enhance therapeutic reach in BD, as apps are cost-effective, accessible, anonymous, and co...

Interpersonal communication within the group becomes an important factor in achieving goals. From results of needs analysis, it was known that interpersonal faced by service partner groups rooted assertive skills. For this reason, training chosen activities to improve knowledge, attitudes, and skills groups. This community “Arsa Community”, with 10 participants. The designed as psychoeducation ...

Background: Bereavement is one of the least studied conditions in children, especially among ones diagnosed with ASD. Lack enough understanding about what to expect from a grieving child ASD complicates how help them and their caregivers. Case presentation: In this paper, we present 13-year-old girl who lost his dad recently due myocardial infarction during COVID-19 pandemic period while lockdo...

The course of a mental disorder is likely to be affected by psychological stress caused by the patient's family members, and many studies of patients with schizophrenia have reported an association between the level of expressed emotion (EE) of family members and patients' relapse. 1,2 Intervention studies have supported this causative association, as family psychoeducation aimed at reducing th...

Objectives To compare online cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with and without telephone support respectively to psychoeducation in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) caregivers of people dementia mild anxiety or depression. Design Three-arm parallel-group RCT comparing CBT psychoeducation. Setting Participants Online study dementia. Measures The primary outcome measure was mental health mea...