OBJECTIVE Anxiety disorders contribute substantially to the overall public health burden. Anxiety sensitivity (AS), a fear of anxiety-related sensations, is one of the few known malleable risk factors for anxiety pathology. Previous AS reduction treatments have primarily utilized "top-down" (e.g., psychoeducation) interventions. The goal of the current study was to evaluate the effect of adding...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE With the rise of autonomous e-mental health applications, virtual agents can play a major role in improving trustworthiness, therapy outcome and adherence. In these applications, it is important that patients adhere in the sense that they perform the tasks, but also that they adhere to the specific recommendations on how to do them well. One important construct in impro...

BACKGROUND Few psychosocial interventions have been developed in China that are suitable for use in the community. AIMS To evaluate the effectiveness of the Chinese version of the Community Re-Entry Module (CRM; a module of a standardised, structured social skills training programme devised at the University of California, Los Angeles) for patients with schizophrenia compared with standard gr...

BACKGROUND Psychoeducation programs have been shown in the last two decades to significantly improve the post-hospital discharge care of individuals with schizophrenia by demonstrated effects on rehospitalization rates, compliance with medication and knowledge. The benefits of psychoeducation can be sustained for up to seven years although most studies have not shown such enduring benefit. Psyc...

Family psychoeducation has emerged as a treatment of choice for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, and other disorders. More than 30 randomized clinical trials have demonstrated reduced relapse rates, improved recovery of patients, and improved family well-being among participants. Interventions common to effective family psychoeducation programs have been developed, including e...

Intervention: Fluoxetine (10–40 mg/day) plus cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT); fluoxetine alone; CBT alone; or placebo. Participants receiving CBT took part in 15 one hour sessions with a therapist. Sessions included: psychoeducation about depression, goal setting, mood monitoring cognitive restructuring, social problem solving, and increasing pleasurable activities (week 1–6); tailored sess...

our research group has - during the past 15 years - developed and tested internet interventions for more than 20 separate conditions totaling in close to 50 published randomized controlled trials. the studies cover a wide range of diagnoses including depression, social anxiety, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and pathological gambling. the treatments have mostly been based on cogn...

A professionally led multifamily psychoeducation program for families with a schizophrenic member was designed according to participating families' reported concerns. The families provided information on their problems, needs, coping, and requirements from the program. They expressed more concern about "negative" symptoms of schizophrenia (e.g., social withdrawal) than about positive ones (e.g....

The objective of this study was to develop a psychoeducation practitioner training program (PPTP) and to evaluate its usefulness with regard to nursing competencies (knowledge, self-efficacy, attitude, motivation, skills). A mixed-method research design was applied in this study. Some of the quantitative data were a one-group pretest-posttest study. Forty nurses participated in the PPTP, of who...