objective: the  implementation of  family  psychoeducation at  the  service delivery level is not without difficulty. few mental health professionals receive special training to work with families especially in iran.   the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of training health professionals in terms of their adherence to protocol. method: eight professionals (general prac...

Healio.com/Psychiatry | 205 Psychoeducation for schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses has grown in prevalence during the past 4 decades as more evidence accrues regarding its benefits for both patients and families. A variety of influences have come together to produce what we know today as psychoeducation. Further, once psychiatric patient education/psychoeducation became establishe...

Childhood onset bipolar disorder is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, yet effective treatment strategies have remained underdeveloped and understudied. While some headway is being made vis-a-vis pharmacologic treatments, empirical efforts have not focused on adjunctive psychosocial interventions for childhood bipolar disorder. In this review, we discuss psychoeducation, deliv...

Mental illnesses contribute to substantial morbidity in the population. Education for prevention and control of mental illnesses is mandatory. Psychoeducation is the specialized education that comprises of educational endeavors directed toward the patients and their families with an aim to help prevent relapse of mental illnesses and restoration of health for mentally ill patients. Several stud...

BACKGROUND Although there is some quantitative evidence to suggest the benefits of group psychoeducation for people with bipolar disorder, patients' perspectives and experiences of group psychoeducation require in-depth exploration to enable us to better understand the feasibility, acceptability and impact of these interventions, the potential facilitators and barriers to engagement, and how to...

Several studies have proven the effectiveness of psychoeducation in bipolar II disorder patients; however, simpler psychoeducation is needed in daily medical practice. Therefore, we devised a simple individual psychoeducation program, which involved 20-minute sessions spent reading a textbook aloud in the waiting time before examination. Here, we report a successful case of simple individual ps...

BACKGROUND This multicenter, cluster-randomized, nonblinded study evaluated the effect of parental psychoeducation on medication persistence among children and adolescents with newly diagnosed attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). METHODS Patients received standard medication alone or medication plus a parental psychoeducation program, and were followed for 12 months. The primary e...

Introduction: Quality of life and dependency are two important issues in elderly population. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the elderly psychoeducation on their quality of life and dependency in a day care center in Iran.   Methods: A pre-post interventional design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of a psychoeducation program on a convenient sample of...

The present paper addresses the efficacy of psychoeducation and related strategies in bipolar disorders. Recently, several randomised clinical trials have shown the efficacy of psychological interventions--namely identification of prodromal signs, cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychoeducation and family-focused interventions--as a prophylactic add-on to medication. All these studies are present...