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Working With Families

 

It has become more and more clear in recent decades, that the families’ of people with serious mental illness need professional assistance. Why?

 

More patients with psychosis are out of hospitals and needing care and support from their families.
Stress-related communication problems in families of people with mental illness are now known to be a consequence, not a cause, of the disorders.
Family members can help prevent the ill relative from relapsing if they acquire certain skills.
Families often suffer an immense burden as a consequence of their relative's illness.
The growth of a national organization, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, with local chapters across the US, has focused attention on the need for education and support for family members.