[[Psychoeducation]] # What are psychoeducation? ^59f932 - It is an intervention involving providing clients with information about psychological concepts, their specific problems, and the relationships between thinking, emotion, and behaviour. - Educating patient on the relationships between thinking, emotion and behaviour is important when a patient have poor understanding. - Counselors can then intervene by teaching and modeling life skills, including goal and value clarification, interpersonal communication, boundary setting, decision-making, conflict resolution and emotional awareness (Hornby, 1990) - https://positivepsychology.com/psychoeducation/ # Possible Topics To Address Topics can include the following: ^5731b3 1. Information about a specific diagnosis or problem. See the handouts section below for further resources. 2. Explaining and reviewing treatment options and combinations of treatments such as medication and CBT. _Mind_ has published this [free guide](https://www.mind.org.uk/media-a/2942/mental-health-problems-introduction-2017.pdf) for practitioners to use. 3. Explaining psychological concepts and the interventions that will be used in your specific [approach to counseling](https://positivepsychology.com/popular-counseling-approaches/) or psychotherapy. 4. Assessing a client’s [psychoeducational needs](https://positivepsychology.com/quenza-psychoeducation-interventions/) to identify gaps in the client’s life skills. 5. [Value clarification](https://positivepsychology.com/values-worksheets/) to ensure your client understands what gives their life meaning. 6. Emotional literacy training. 7. Boundary clarification and boundary setting to develop and maintain healthy relationships while moving on from unhealthy situations. 8. [Conflict resolution skills](https://positivepsychology.com/conflict-resolution-worksheets/) to help maintain relationships. 9. [Coping with grief](https://positivepsychology.com/grief-counseling/) following relationship breakdown, divorce, bereavement, or [job loss](https://positivepsychology.com/job-loss-depression/). 10. Developing parenting skills. # ### Psychoeducation on schizophrenia (Source: https://positivepsychology.com/psychoeducation/) Psychoeducation for those newly diagnosed with schizophrenia is intended to empower patients and their families by providing them with up-to-date information about the illness, treatment options, and how to monitor symptoms and prevent relapse (Bäuml, Froböse, Kraemer, Rentrop, & Pitschel-Walz, 2006). Psychoeducation programs about living with schizophrenia enhance patients’ insight into the condition, improve treatment compliance, and result in a higher quality of life for patients and their families (Bäuml et al., 2006; Dixon, Adams, & Hucksted, 2000; Loots et al., 2021) . ==The overall benefit of psychoeducation is a reduced rate of relapse and hospitalization, and a reduced risk of suicide. This is according to a recent systematic review published in _The Lancet_ (Bighelli et al., 2021), which assessed the results of 85 research studies and concluded that psychoeducation should be an early intervention in those newly diagnosed with schizophrenia because of its evidence-based benefits.== Another pilot study (Lam, Leung, Lin, & Chien, 2020) investigated the effects of a mindfulness-based psychoeducation program (MBPP) on emotional regulation in those newly diagnosed with schizophrenia in Hong Kong. In the study, 46 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia were randomly assigned either to the eight-week MBPP group or the ‘treat as usual’ group. Results were followed up after three months. The MBPP appeared to improve emotional regulation, especially in reducing rumination and enhancing cognitive reappraisal. A large-scale randomized control trial is being planned by Lam et al. (2020) to assess the effectiveness of the MBPP with a wider range of patients with schizophrenia. This pilot study has supplied new scientific evidence that is advancing the application of positive psychology to the treatment of psychosis.