Family Psychoeducation

Purpose: A psychoeducational program that can be delivered to an individual family or in a group of 5-8 consumers of mental health services and their families to address mental health educational needs, communication and problem solving skills to support the consumer’s recovery from mental illness.

Duration: Longer term intervention (9-24 months or longer)

Components: It has three discrete components: 1. Joining sessions with the consumer and family members before the group begins; 2. A full day educational workshop leading up to 3. Group meetings that are held every 2 weeks for 90 minutes. The group follows a standardized agenda: 15 minutes socializing, 20 minutes go-around, 5 minutes problem identification, 45 minutes problem solving, 5 minutes wrap up and socializing.

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Family Institute for Education, Practice & Research Publications

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Jewell, T. C., Downing, D., & McFarlane, W. M. (2009). Partnering with families: Multiple family group psychoeducation for schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 65, 868-878. Jewell, T. C., & Stein, C. H. (2002). Parental influence on sibling caregiving for people with severe mental illness. Community Mental Health Journal, 38, 17-33. Jewell, T. C., Corry, R., […]

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Family Information Night

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Purpose: An informational meeting hosted by a mental health agency/program that has a feel of an Open House with food & drinks being provided. Duration: Flexible. One time, Multiple times per year and/or quarterly. Components: Flexible – depending on the needs of the consumers and their families. Formal presentations by agency staff can be made […]

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Who We’ve Trained

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2002-2005-  McFarlane’s Multifamily Psychoeducation Group Initiative This inititative consisted of 34 agencies throughout New York State with half of them organized into Learning Collaboratives. The Family Institute taught this evidence based practice model of multifamily group, provided technical assistance and on-site supervision supporting agencies with setting up, recruiting for and maintaining the groups within their agencies. […]

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