Family psychoeducation as a treatment for schizophrenia was developed 40 years ago almost simultaneously and independently by investigators who at the time were not family therapists. Although the original goal was to decrease high expressed emotion as a means of preventing relapse, later variations have gone beyond to focus on social and role functioning and family well-being. Explicitly disav...

Health care decisions can have life-altering consequences, so consumers must be as informed as possible. This is particularly true when it comes to developing treatment programs for schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is often characterized by lack of insight, treatment nonadherence, and poor prognosis. However, research suggests that patients with schizophrenia benefit immensely from learning about t...

Health care decisions can have life-altering consequences, so consumers must be as informed as possible. This is particularly true when it comes to developing treatment programs for schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is often characterized by lack of insight, treatment nonadherence, and poor prognosis. However, research suggests that patients with schizophrenia benefit immensely from learning about t...

OBJECTIVE This brief report describes the engagement strategy used in the Reaching out to Educate and Assist Caring, Healthy Families (REACH) program, a nine-month family psychoeducation program for veterans with serious mental illness or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). METHODS A motivational interviewing-based strategy was created and implemented in a Veterans Affairs hospital to engag...

Introduction: The caregivers of people with schizophrenia have problems that include high family, burden and low quality life at home. Therefore, this study aims to determine the effectiveness nursing psychoeducation on burdens in patients community.
 Design Methods: This used a pre-test post-test group control design repeated measurement total 100 respondents. treatment was given weekly f...

1. A client-led mutual support group for Chinese family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia is more effective and less costly to improve psychosocial functioning of families and patients’ functioning than family psychoeducation group and standard care, over a 1-year follow-up. 2. Mutual support can effectively improve family care of Chinese patients with schizophrenia in Hong Kong without...

BACKGROUND Despite high levels of burden and distress among families with a member who has borderline personality disorder (BPD), only two BPD specific family psychoeducation groups have been empirically evaluated. Neither of these is designed specifically for the family and friends of young people who are presenting early in the course of BPD. This study aimed to evaluate Making Sense of Borde...

Among potential resources for people with serious mental illnesses (SMI) and their families, professionally delivered family psychoeducation (FPE) is designed to engage, inform, and educate family members, so that they can assist the person with SMI in managing their illness. In this article, we review research regarding FPE outcomes and implementation since 2001, updating the previous review i...

OBJECTIVE This randomized-controlled experimental study was conducted to determine the effects of psychoeducation in the inpatient clinic and regular telepsychiatric follow-up (via telephone) after discharge on emotional expression, depression and family burden of primary caregivers of the schizophrenic patients. METHODS This study was performed on 62 caregivers of the schizophrenic patients,...