Chapter 10.Psychoeducation
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Psychoeducation can be defined as “a professionally delivered treatment modality that integrates and synergizes psychotherapeutic and educational interventions” (Lukens and McFarlane 2004, p. 206). To date, psychoeducational interventions have been targeted to specific psychiatric disorders. The Menninger Clinic, with its long history in providing psychiatric training for a wide range of professional disciplines as well as public education about mental illness (Menninger 1930, 1947), has provided fertile ground for expanding and refining psychoeducational interventions (Allen 2005, 2006a; Craig 1985). Yet, most recently, we have gone beyond the traditional disorder-focused approach to psychoeducation by developing psychoeducational groups on mentalizing to enhance patients’ participation in treatment as a whole; this new approach has been based on our conviction about the central role of mentalizing in treatment coupled with our belief that our patients are better able to collaborate when they understand what we clinicians are trying to do with them (Haslam-Hopwood et al. 2006).
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