Psychoeducation - Educating persons with mental illness and family members regarding mental illness

Psychoeducation refers to the process of providing education and information to those seeking or receiving mental health services, such as people diagnosed with mental health conditions (or life-threatening/terminal illnesses) and their family members. Psychoeducation is an evidence-based therapeutic intervention for patients and their loved ones that provide information and support to better understand and cope with illness. Psychoeducation is most often associated with serious mental illness, including dementia, schizophrenia, clinical depression, anxiety disorders, psychotic illnesses, eating disorders, personality disorders, and autism, although the term has also been used for programs that address physical illnesses, such as cancer.
Psychoeducation usually includes certain basic components of information, which are to be imparted to patients and their family members regarding a particular mental disorder. The modules may be modified to suit the needs of the patients, family members, clinicians, or vary according to a particular disorder. Thus, the number and timing of the sessions may vary along with alterations in the overall content.
According to the target population, psychoeducation can be an individual, family, group, or community-based.
According to the predominant focus of psychoeducation, it can be compliance/adherence focused, illness focused, treatment-focused, and rehabilitation focused.
Active psychoeducation involves the active involvement of the therapist with the patient/family during the process, leading to interaction and clarification. In passive psychoeducation, materials are provided to patients/family members in the form of pamphlets, audio/video material that they are supposed to read and assimilate on their own. In a busy clinic with limited available time, a clinician may take resort to passive psychoeducation by distributing leaflets or educative materials about the illness written in a simple language, which the patient and guardians can easily understand and assimilate.
Psychoeducation offered to patients and family members teaches problem-solving and communication skills and provide education and resources in an empathetic and supportive environment. Psychoeducation can take place in one-on-one discussion or in groups and by any qualified health professionals such as a psychiatrist, doctors, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists, and physicians. In the groups, several patients are informed about their illnesses at once. Also, exchanges of experience between the concerned patients and mutual support play a role in the healing process.
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Very thorough! I’m getting my doctoral degree at University of San Francisco and I really appreciate how candidly and clearly you have gone through the practical elements of treatment and family psycho education. Here we gloss over such things and say “meet the client where they are” but the way you have explained with details makes it much more tangible. Thank you! 🙏🏼

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Thank you Sir for information on the structured psycho education.

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Very informative video Sir.. Ur teachings are very beneficial to us.. Please make a video on different non pharmacological therapies that are given in cases of OCDs.. We are very much lacking in this aspect in our set up... Thank you Sir

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Sir, extraordinary session. I started following ur video education. Salute you sir for the information and motivation.I am plugging gaps in my knowledge & practice 🙏🙏🙏. Can we call PE as family therapy as we bring change in attitude & action?

[@Kriti2024]

Sir, could you please help me understand the difference schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychosis??? And also if the course of illness i.e. stages are the same in schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia and if not what's the difference.

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Can we get a course structured about Family education / psychoeducation on relational or behavioural health, CAPRD, Caregiver-Child Relationship problem?

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This is a fascinating and enriching video. Keep it up, sir! Can you please suggest some books or references on Psychoeducation?

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www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010823.pub2/references Please find this useful article. You can cross refer for other articles

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