What is the Scope and Efficiency of family psychoeducation?
The simplest answer is that Family Psychoeducation involves the family in the acute and ongoing treatment and recovery of a person with a severe mental illness, with the goal of alleviating illness, re-integrating the consumer in community life as he or she chooses and helping to set the stage for recovery. As noted above, formats vary but the basic approaches are similar. Family members should be involved as soon as possible during psychiatric crises, inpatient or partial hospital admissions and during longer-term outpatient or Assertive Community Treatment. The other area in which family involvement has proved highly beneficial is in Supported Employment.Some family meetings can replace meetings that may have involved only the consumer with other services. Most outpatient services that have applied Family Psychoeducation on a wide scale have experienced a net decrease in staff time, expense, stress and effort when the family is involved on a routine basis. Family Psychoeducation in m
