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A practical guide to implementing family interventions for psychosis, which discusses different family needs and illustrates different approaches to offering the interventions. Approximately 1 in 100 people experience psychosis, which can severely disrupt home and family life and place a heavy burden on carers A practical guide to implementing family interventions for psychosis, which discusses different family needs and illustrates different approaches to offering the interventions Shows how to tailor family interventions to meet different needs e.g. working via interpreter or with families in which multiple members suffer mental health problems No direct competition on family interventions for psychosis.
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| Title of eBook: A Casebook of Family Interventions for Psychosis | |
| Release Date: 03-23-2009 | |
| Publisher: John Wiley & Sons |
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A Casebook of Family Interventions for Psychosis
Chapter One
Why Are Family Interventions Important? A Family Member PerspectiveMartin Gregory
Introduction
I have written this chapter as the father of a son who has suffered from schizophrenia. Our family unit benefited very considerably from participating in behavioural family therapy (BFT), and I will describe our experiences since our son first developed difficulties. After painting the picture of the family background, I will describe our family's story under the following headings:
The roller coaster that comes about from mental health problems.
Getting started on family therapy.
The process and its structure.
How the family benefited.
Family meetings.
How family therapy has helped with our son's social rehabilitation.
The longer term outcomes of the family intervention.
The chapter includes a section written by my wife, who talks about how she felt during the family therapy sessions and the pressures it put on her emotions.
There is a section on the perspectives of our son, and the thoughts of the two key therapists involved are also given.
The chapter concludes with some final messages and my reflections on the whole experience.
The Background to the Family
This story and its messages relate to a family from England and to the developments within the family during the 1990s. I worked in a managerial capacity within the corporate world of industry and m
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