Anita Savage Grainge and colleagues discuss a small pilot study that enabled practitioners to participate on a course offering families psychosocial support
Family psychosocial interventions are recommended as first-line treatments to reduce stress in families that have a member experiencing psychotic illness. Clinical strategies to be taught and practised include goal setting, problem solving, communication training, information provision and relapse prevention.
With live supervision, there is little or no separation between the mechanisms of teaching, learning, supervising and applying learning to skills deployed in the tight situational context that is the family environment. Two findings of this pilot study were that a new schema of learning was required for such training and that anxieties on all sides should be taken into account as well as evident benefits.
The discussion includes implications for researchers and future family intervention training and commissioning.
Mental Health Practice. 16, 9, 12-18. doi: 10.7748/mhp2013.06.16.9.12.e828
Correspondenceanita.savagegrainge@york.ac.uk
Conflict of interestNone declared
Peer reviewThis article has been subject to double blind peer review
Received: 01 May 2012
Accepted: 20 July 2012
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