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	Clinical Preventive Services in Substance Abuse and Mental Health Update: From Science to Services, National Mental ...
		Psychoeducation is of value for three categories of patients: (1) Those with major chronic diseases; (2) persons scheduled to undergo surgical procedures; and (3) high users of health care services.
		Psychoeducation is an effective way to help close some of these gaps between the theoretical ideal and the reality each of us must live with on a daily basis.
		Psychoeducation involves teaching people about their problem, how to treat it, and how to recognize signs of relapse so that they can get necessary treatment before their difficulty worsens or occurs again.
	www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov /publications/allpubs/SMA04-3906/x.asp (2266 words)

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		Psychoeducation can be seen as a part of general health education, which aims to affect the recovery of somatically or physically ill patients.
		Psychoeducation has most often been used on schizophrenic patients and their families, but in the last few years it has been used to help patients who suffer from other mental disorders, as well as their families.
		In psychoeducation the aim is to adjust the contacts between the family members and to widen the family’s social connections.
	www.eufami.org /index.pl/download/Pedagogic_Family_Intervention.doc (2671 words)

	PsychoEducation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Psychoeducation is the education of a person in subject areas that serve the goals of treatment and rehabilitation.
		Psychoeducation works by improving the knowledge patients and their families have and providing a greater understanding of the importance and benefits of medication.
		Psychoeducation in combination with medication has been used successfully in relation to people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and depression, as well as assisting their family and caregivers.
	www.psychoeducation.com /psychoeducation.htm (612 words)

	Family Psychoeducation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Family psychoeducation involves a strong partnership between consumers, families and supporters, and practitioners.
		This can involve a variety of formats, approaches, lengths of time, and places where services are offered, but effective family psychoeducation programs have a common basis, methods, and set of principles.
		Family psychoeducation fosters feelings of respect, trust, hope, and empowerment among everyone involved in the treatment process, so a true partnership can be formed.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~westinst/fpe.htm (203 words)

	Mood Disorders Program
		The program is called psychoeducation and it helps families deal with children who have been diagnosed with depression, dysthymic disorder and bipolar disorder.
		The first goal of psychoeducation is to teach parents about the mood disorder their child suffers from -- everything from the symptoms, the normal course of the disorder, and the usual treatment, Fristad said.
		The six-session psychoeducation group that is now being tested with 8- to 11-year-olds and their families expands on the single-workshop format.
	researchnews.osu.edu /archive/psyched.htm (750 words)

	Benefits of family education
		As NAMI advocate Judith Carrington points out, psychoeducation can be 100% reimbursed (75% through Medicaid and the balance through the local carrier) and taught by the new influx of case managers OMH/NYS has provided with the budget.
		Psychoeducation can create a bridge to the clinical team to enhance coordination and service to families.
		Budget for a preventative modality as psychoeducation is justified on the grounds it conservatively would affect, 1,200,000 (400,000 mentally ill patients treated in NYS plus one to three family/caretakers) annually.
	www.nami-nyc-metro.org /psycho_benefits.htm (616 words)

	PsychoEducational Counseling Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Based in Broward County, Florida, we will shortly be offering a number of psychoeducational programs in small-group settings to assist individuals, their families, friends, and caregivers in understanding and coping with everyday emotional and behavioral challenges in relation to:
		Psychoeducation is a specialized form of education aimed at helping people to learn about a broad range of emotional and behavioral difficulties, their effects, and strategies to deal with them.
		No, for a long time psychoeducation has been utilized to assist individuals and their families and caregivers to understand what is happening and to help them help themselves and their loved ones.
	www.psychoeducation.com (149 words)

	Psychoeducation for schizophrenia (Cochrane Review) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Psychoeducational approaches have been developed to increase patients' knowledge of, and insight into, their illness and its treatment.
		It is supposed that this increased knowledge and insight will enable people with schizophrenia to cope in a more effective way with their illness, thereby improving prognosis.
		Any kind of psychoeducational intervention significantly decreased relapse or readmission rates at nine to 18 months follow-up compared with standard care (RR 0.8 CI 0.7-0.9 NNT 9 CI 6-22).
	www.update-software.com /abstracts/AB002831.htm (547 words)

	College Student Journal: Psychoeducation: from classroom to treatment group
		Traditionally, instructional/experiential work, often described as psychoeducational, has taken the form of group seminar work, paper assignments and "consciousness-raising" groups; all have required participants to learn specified theory and apply it their own lives or to the lives of others in their self-system.
		Consequently, various forms of psychoeducation have continued to be structured with the belief that change among the participants has occurred when treatment has included an instructional "information- base" combined with intrapersonal experiential exercises (Gladding, 1999).
		Therefore, theory and research have shown that psychoeducational experiences, no matter how structured, may also be dependent upon the level of connection and/or disconnection participants' encounter during their psychoeducationally structured experience.
	findarticles.com /cf_dls/m0FCR/2_36/89809981/p1/article.jhtml (1140 words)

	Antony Mullen & Linda Murray
		The purpose of psychoeducation is to promote understanding of the illness for both the client and their family (Glick, Burti, Okonogi, and Sacks, 1994).
		Gleeson and colleagues in 1999 identified that the general aim of psychoeducation is to reduce distress and burden, as well as allow for ventilation, discussion and provide the opportunity to ask questions within a safe environment.
		Most of the literature surrounding family psychoeducation centres on clients with schizophrenia and there are very few examples of formal psychoeducational programmes within the existing literature that focus on first episode psychosis (Fadden, 1998).
	www.cs.nsw.gov.au /Mhealth/symposium/2000wintsym20.htm (3195 words)

	Psychoeducation
		The term “psychoeducation” refers to the process of learning specific information about one’s particular problem area: signs and symptoms, risk factors, warning signs, preferred treatment methods, and, strategies for coping with symptoms and for preventing or minimizing relapse.
		Psychoeducation has been shown to be very effective in helping clients and those close to them become more informed, and feel more confident, in addition to reducing specific symptoms and improving general quality of life.
		Most of our psychoeducational programs are offered in a small group format to provide the added value of support from others with similar experiences.
	home.cogeco.ca /~wbalog/index_files/Page367.htm (265 words)

	Evidenced Based Practice Letter on Family Psychoeducation February 6, 2002
		While family psychoeducation is not the same as family therapy or occasionally meeting with a family to obtain information or answer questions, it does include many therapeutic elements and shares characteristics with other types of family interventions in addressing the needs of family members for information, assistance, and support.
		While "family psychoeducation" is not specifically identified or defined as a service category in current OMH outpatient regulations, the regulations do not preclude the provision of such services.
		Questions related to the process of amending an operating certificate to include family psychoeducation services should be directed to James McQuide, Acting Director of the Bureau of Inspection and Certification, at (518) 474-5570 or to the director of the OMH field office in your region.
	www.omh.state.ny.us /omhweb/ebp/letters/family.htm (2609 words)

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		Because of these potential dangers, psychoeducation teachers must be able to physically restrain their pupils; for example, a psychoeducation teacher may have to "basket hold" several students each day.
		Doe therefore contends that his transfer was adverse both because he has a deep, personal commitment to psychoeducational instruction and because he would have to undergo ten credit hours of instruction in order to obtain certification in interrelated teaching.
		Although Doe's transfer would disrupt his investment in his current Georgia certificate, his transfer from a psychoeducational to an interrelated classroom is not nearly as dramatic as Rodriguez's move from a middle school to an elementary school.
	caselaw.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=11th&navby=case&no=978915OPN (7635 words)

	Psychoeducation for Pre-Adoptive Families
		Psychoeducation, even 22 years after this unforgettable day, could help the entire family.
		And psychoeducation before adoption for parents and their extended family or community will lead to more support of the adoptive family, along with a greater understanding of participants’ own feelings.
		Gay and lesbian couples and single parents who adopt will also benefit from pre-adoption psychoeducation about the added complexities that their families will face.
	www.fairfamilies.org /newsfromfair/1996/96FallPsychoedForPreAdopt.htm (1649 words)

	New York State Office of Mental Health: Family psychoeducation a focus of Rochester's Strong Ties program
		The program was established in 1988 as a program of the University of Rochester Department of Psychiatry, and provides an array of mental health services including pharmacotherapy, day treatment, case management, individual and group psychotherapy, and a number of family interventions.
		"By design, family psychoeducation groups last at least one year, and often the target is two years," he said, adding that the effect on relapse rates is often not obvious for nine months or more.
		Many families who participate in Strong Ties' family psychoeducation program are new to the mental health system, but according to Jewell, there are also families whose loved one has been diagnosed for a dozen years or more.
	www.omh.state.ny.us /omhweb/omhq/q0602/StrongTies.htm (1285 words)

	Developmental Therapy - Teaching Programs: Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The challenge for psychoeducation at the beginning of the third millennium is to create and maintain caring communities, value traditional and universal people skills, cultivate emotional and social competence, and inspire substantial paradigm shifts by individuals and institutions.
		In short, the new psychoeducation must sharpen its focus, broaden its grasp of complexities and then integrate its scope, define its standards, and test its universal applicability across ages, cultures, races, and settings.
		And most importantly, psychoeducation must reflect universal beliefs about wellness - what children and youth need - and be driven by those core values.
	www.uga.edu /dttp/resources/newsletter/archive/fall99/inthefuture.html (372 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Psychoeducation support groups moderated by a social worker can help loved ones understand that the behavior the ill person exhibits is part of the disorder and not personal toward members of the family.
		Psychoeducation is treatment for the loved ones of persons affected with bipolar/unipolar disorder.
		Ready emphasized that one of the most important goals of psychoeducation focuses on how the shame and humiliation of an affected person’s behavior affects the rest of the family.
	shrike.depaul.edu /~amaislen/psychoed.htm (407 words)

	Psychoeducation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The purpose of this quasi-experimental research was to study the effect of psychoeducation and support group on burden among caregivers of schizophrenic patient.The subjects were caregivers of schizop...
		With the media focusing more and more on adoption - and usually sensationalizing it — the public’s impression is often that of an adversarial relationship that must exist between the birth family and...
		A preventative modality such as psychoeducation conservatively would affect 1,200,000 a year in New York State (400,000 mentally ill patients treated plus one to three family caretakers for each of...
	www.psychoeducation.com /links/psychoeducation.html (650 words)

	NCADI: Assessment and Treatment Planning for Cocaine-Abusing Methadone-Maintained Patients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Psychoeducation is the process of presenting information about addiction to the patient and his or her family and then addressing with them their attitudes and feelings about substance abuse.
		Psychoeducational treatment models, when used with other treatment approaches, may increase a patient's ability to function independently and meet his or her daily living needs outside the treatment setting.
		Psychoeducation programs can address the full range of patient needs, including academic education, personal development, recreation, health, vocation, and relationship needs (Stark and Campbell 1991).
	www.health.org /govpubs/bkd157/10f.htm (10122 words)

	PORT study, NAMI support family education
		It was an exhaustive compilation of research on effective treatments for schizophrenia and is considered one of the most authoritative benchmarks in mental health.
		Since psychoeducation is rated as one of the best, if not THE best, practice, NAMI members must unite in supporting this program and in advocating for its implementation throughout the state, urges Jim Reiser, who chairs the Media and Advocacy Committee.
		Several states that have implemented family psychoeducation have reported changed attitudinal mindsets of clinicians and social workers.
	www.nami-nyc-metro.org /port.htm (376 words)

	Why is Family Dynamics' approach so effective? What is the difference in education and psychoeducation?
		To change, grow, mature, and develop, we are better served by a process of psychoeducation that educates both the mind and the heart (The intellect and the emotion).
		In our next step of the psychoeducational process, couples hear their facilitators talk openly and honestly in class about their pains, their new awareness, and the positive effect that came from removing Love Busters from their marriage.
		Yet we are convinced that through psychoeducation, many more people grow much more rapidly and the needed changes they make to their lives are more long lasting.
	www.familydynamics.net /theapproach.htm (1273 words)

	Arch Gen Psychiatry -- Abstract: A Randomized Trial on the Efficacy of Group Psychoeducation in the Prophylaxis of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Arch Gen Psychiatry -- Abstract: A Randomized Trial on the Efficacy of Group Psychoeducation in the Prophylaxis of Recurrences in Bipolar Patients Whose Disease Is in Remission, April 2003, Colom et al.
		psychoeducation or 21 sessions of nonstructured group meetings.
		per patient were also lower in patients who received psychoeducation.
	archpsyc.ama-assn.org /cgi/content/abstract/60/4/402 (343 words)

	Psychoeducation Efficacy in Bipolar Disorders: Beyond Compliance Enhancement/JCP Article September 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Psychological interventions such as psychoeducation may foster early recognition of prodromal symptoms and minimize the risk of relapse.
		To date, studies assessing the usefulness of psychoeducation in fully compliant patients are lacking.
		The action of psychoeducation seems to go beyond compliance enhancement and may support a tripod model composed by lifestyle regularity and healthy habits, early detection of prodromal signs followed by prompt drug intervention, and finally treatment compliance.
	www.psychiatrist.com /abstracts/200309/090316.htm (443 words)

	Psychoeducation: best kept secret
		But most promotional efforts neglect to call attention to family psychoeducation, a service intervention that has proven to be among the most effective.
		Family psychoeducation is the label given to the well-researched program of education and training in mental illness for families and consumers.
		To begin with, while no provider group is actively pushing this program, we all need to remember that OMH has stated that it is very interested in finding ways to institutionalize the program and integrate it into current practices.
	www.nami-nyc-metro.org /best_kept_secret.htm (561 words)

	Family Process: Burden in schizophrenia caregivers: impact of family psychoeducation and awareness of patient ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In addition, family psychoeducation interventions have reduced patient symptoms, as well as inpatient treatment utilization; however, it is not known whether or not these interventions reduce family burden.
		Participants were 90 outpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, and their caregivers who were enrolled in a 2 year psychoeducation intervention.
		Treatment is delivered for 2 years (bimonthly for the first year and monthly for the second year) and involves four phases: joining with the patient and family, a daylong psychoeducational workshop, relapse prevention, and vocational and social skills enhancement (McFarlane, 2002).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0AZV/is_1_42/ai_99848677 (1119 words)

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		One hundred twenty patients with biplar disorder in remission for at least six months were randomized to receive psychoeducation or non-structured group meetings in addition to their pharmacologic regimens.
		Patients receiving the psychoeducation treatment had significantly fewer relapses and hospitalizations.
		(For further details see: Colom F., et al, A randomized trial on the efficacy of group psychoeducation in the prophylaxis of recurrences in bipolar patients whose disease is in remission.
	www.stanleyresearch.org /Trial/Drug/PharmaTrialsDesc.asp?id=213 (70 words)

	de Groot et al. (2003): Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The aim of the research project was to identify the efficacy of the family psychoeducation program as a strategy for reducing the hospital admissions of young people.
		It also aimed to determine if the family psychoeducation program had an impact on the experience of caregiving and knowledge and satisfaction of services provided by the mental health service.
		There was no impact on the level of care for families who attended the psychoeducation program, however, this group showed some evidence of increased knowledge and understanding of services as compared to the control group.
	www.bu.edu /prj/summer2003/degroot.html (321 words)

	Content and Curriculum in Psychoeducation Groups for Families of Persons With Severe Mental Illness -- Pollio et al. 49 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Psychoeducation groups for families with a relative with severe
		Hogarty GE, Anderson CM, Reiss DJ, et al: Family psychoeducation, social skills training, and maintenance chemotherapy in the aftercare of schizophrenia.
		Solomon P: Moving from psychoeducation to family education for families of adults with serious mental illness.
	psychservices.psychiatryonline.org /cgi/content/full/49/6/816 (3989 words)

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