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Published Online: 2 May 2008

Ways to Promote Recovery, Prevent Recurrence

Publication: Psychiatric News
Volume 43, Number 9
https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.43.9.0025a
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The following family guidelines are used in multifamily group meetings of patients at PIER and their families to promote patient recovery and create a positive environment. Staff at PIER believe these strategies are what account for lasting change and long-term recovery, by helping to alter the psychosocial environment in which biologically vulnerable individuals live (see Program Marks new Direction in Schizophrenia Treatment).
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Believe in your power to affect the outcome.
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Make forward steps cautiously, one at a time.
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Consider using medication to protect your future.
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Try to reduce your responsibility and stresses, at least for the next six months.
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Use the symptoms as indicators.
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Create a positive environment.
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Keep it cool.
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Give each other space.
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Observe limits.
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Ignore what you can't change.
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Keep it simple.
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Carry on business as usual.
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Solve problems step by step.
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Keep a regular sleep and wake cycle.
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Avoid street drugs and alcohol and never use cocaine, amphetamines, or hallucinogens for any reason.
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Stay away from nicotine and caffeine, as hard as that might be.
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Keep hope alive. ▪

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