Abstract
The doctor-patient relationship in health care has evolved over the last two decades and has gradually become less paternalistic. Psychoeducation is currently recommended by practice guidelines throughout all phases of treatment of schizophrenia. Psychoeducation is a major element of more comprehensive treatment packages that have been found to have an impact on important outcomes, which is consistent with its role as a standard element in cognitive behavioral treatments. Sharing information about diagnosis and course with consumers can help demystify many of the more damaging impressions that individuals hold-impressions that reflect widely held stigmatizing attitudes about mental illness. Psychoeducation might be helpful to the degree that it provides an additional piece of knowledge or story with which a patient can negotiate his or her illness and perhaps find parts of it useful and relevant. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 53-56 |
| Journal | the Behavior Therapist |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 2006 |