Main description:

A practical guide to implementing family interventions for psychosis, which discusses different family needs and illustrates different approaches to offering the interventions. * Approximately 1 in 100 people experience psychosis, which can severely disrupt home and family life and place a heavy burden on carers* A practical guide to implementing family interventions for psychosis, which discusses different family needs and illustrates different approaches to offering the interventions* Shows how to tailor family interventions to meet different needs e.g. working via interpreter or with families in which multiple members suffer mental health problems* No direct competition on family interventions for psychosis.

Contents:

About the Editors. Contributors. Preface. I INTRODUCTION. 1 Why Are Family Interventions Important? A Family Member Perspective ( Martin Gregory ). II FIRST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS. 2 Family Work in Early Psychosis ( Grainne Fadden and Jo Smith ). 3 A Model of Family Work in First-Episode Psychosis: Managing Self-Harm ( Jean Addington, April Collins, Amanda McCleery and Sabrina Baker ). 4 Working with Families to Prevent Relapse in First-Episode Psychosis ( Kingsley Crisp and John Gleeson ). III INTERVENTIONS FOCUSING ON DRUG USE. 5 Family Intervention for Complex Cases: Substance Use and Psychosis ( Ian Lowens, Samantha E. Bowe and Christine Barrowclough ). 6 Family Motivational Intervention in Early Psychosis and Cannabis Misuse ( Maarten Smeerdijk, Don Linszen, Tom Kuipers and Rene Keet ). IV VARIETY OF ISSUES ARISING IN WORKING WITH RELATIVES. 7 A Case of Family Intervention with a 'High EE' Family ( Juliana Onwumere, Ben Smith and Elizabeth Kuipers ). 8 Coming to Terms with Mental Illness in the Family -Working Constructively through Its Grief ( Virginia Lafond ). 9 Interventions with Siblings ( Jo Smith, Grainne Fadden and Michelle O'Shea ). 10 Family Intervention with Ethnically and Culturally Diverse Groups ( Juliana Onwumere, Ben Smith and Elizabeth Kuipers ). V WORKING IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS. 11 Multiple Family Groups in Early Psychosis: A Brief Psychoeducational and Therapeutic Intervention ( David Glentworth ). 12 Meeting the Needs of Families on Inpatient Units ( Chris Mansell and Grainne Fadden ). VI SERVICE RELATED ISSUES. 13 Setting Up a Family Interventions (FI) Service - A UK Case Study ( Frank Burbach and Roger Stanbridge ). 14 Overcoming Barriers to Staff Offering Family Interventions in the NHS ( Grainne Fadden ). VII RELATIVES' SUPPORTING EACH OTHER. 15 The COOL Approach ( Claudia Benzies, Gwen Butcher and Tom Linton ). VIII CONCLUSION. 16 Summary and Conclusions -Where Are We up to and Where Are We Going? ( Fiona Lobban and Christine Barrowclough ). Index.