1st Edition
Family and Multi-Family Work with Psychosis A Guide for Professionals
Family and Multi-Family Work with Psychosis provides a practical step-by-step guide for professionals treating psychosis using family work.
The authors draw on over ten years of experience working with family and multi-family groups where there are members with a psychotic disturbance. They provide helpful guidance on vital issues, including setting up initial group meetings, crisis intervention plans, group structure, problem solving and communication in the group. Subjects covered include:
- the stress-vulnerability model
- the group structure and framework
- family-work in early psychosis
- working with families of people suffering from psychosis and substance misuse
- what can the family do to be of help and support?
This accessible, jargon-free guide will be of great interest to anyone interested in investigating the potential for using family work to treat those with psychosis.
Biography
Gerd-Ragna Bloch Thorsen is a psychiatrist and teacher of psychotherapy. She is the coordinator of family-work at Stavanger Psychiatric Hospital, Norway and Deputy President of the Norwegian Psychiatric Association.
Trond Grønnestad is a psychiatric nurse and leader of an educational project about mental health.
Anne Lise Øxnevad is a psychiatric nurse and leader of the psychoeducational multifamily group division at Stavanger Psychiatric Hospital, Norway.
'This text provides an invaluable resource for teams who are intending to develop MFG's as part of the range of services offered to families, and will be of interest both to practitioners who are new to family work as well as those who have experience of working with single families but new to running MFG's.' Alex Reed, ISPS Newsletter