After reading about the psychoeducation model, it’s the answer to what I believe one of my new clients is in need of. My client a 22 year old male who has had several hospitalization since being diagnosed with bipolar 1. However, once stabilized he is sent back home with a Mother and father who have two other younger children at home. Most of the time he’s brought to the hospital its due to the client being off his medication for couple of weeks. The Parents are very tired, and has warned our agency that they are not going to allow the client back home which causes an even bigger problem for the client and even more instability. Therefore, I suggested psychoeducation for the family to his social worker at the hospital after reading this chapter.
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With psychoeducation the family is educated about the disease, how the environment contribute to relapsing, and are taught coping skills so that they can handle symptomatic stressors when they arise. What I like most is that psychoeducation takes a nonjudgmental approach and provides emotional support to the entire family. According to Wheeler (2010) knowledge is power when it comes to bipolar disorder. Furthermore, understanding the disease through family psychoeducation is an important first step in managing it. Another concept that I like about this model is the time taken to ensure families are helped. According to our reading psychoeducation program last 9 months to 5 years, multifamily groups are ongoing, and families can choose when to terminate (Metcalf, 2011). Therefore, given family members enough time to understand bipolar disorder along with ongoing supports to decrease the amount of episodes the client will have is effective and beneficial for all parties. (Wheeler, 2010). Furthermore I believe psychoeducation seem more cost effective if used at the beginning of the …show more content…
The only concern I have with this type of therapy is finding therapist who specialize in this type of treatment. I received a phone call from the social worker today, and she could not find a therapist who specialized in this model where my client and his family lives. The articles stated the challenge with psychoeducation is finding a therapist who specializes in psychoeducation and suggested we contact our local psychiatrist or psychologist who specialize in bipolar disorder (Wheeler,
With psychoeducation the family is educated about the disease, how the environment contribute to relapsing, and are taught coping skills so that they can handle symptomatic stressors when they arise. What I like most is that psychoeducation takes a nonjudgmental approach and provides emotional support to the entire family. According to Wheeler (2010) knowledge is power when it comes to bipolar disorder. Furthermore, understanding the disease through family psychoeducation is an important first step in managing it. Another concept that I like about this model is the time taken to ensure families are helped. According to our reading psychoeducation program last 9 months to 5 years, multifamily groups are ongoing, and families can choose when to terminate (Metcalf, 2011). Therefore, given family members enough time to understand bipolar disorder along with ongoing supports to decrease the amount of episodes the client will have is effective and beneficial for all parties. (Wheeler, 2010). Furthermore I believe psychoeducation seem more cost effective if used at the beginning of the …show more content…
The only concern I have with this type of therapy is finding therapist who specialize in this type of treatment. I received a phone call from the social worker today, and she could not find a therapist who specialized in this model where my client and his family lives. The articles stated the challenge with psychoeducation is finding a therapist who specializes in psychoeducation and suggested we contact our local psychiatrist or psychologist who specialize in bipolar disorder (Wheeler,