Objective: Since the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services around the world, the scope
of outpatient psychiatric care has also increased to better support treatment access and …

Training-based intervention such as psychoeducational groups has become increasingly
popular to empower family caregivers of people with schizophrenia, yet existing supportive …

Consistent with the traditional emphasis of the stress paradigm (Lazarus and Folkman,
1984), studies of the coping efforts used by persons diagnosed with severe mental illness …

Over the last 20 years, numerous articles (eg, Andres Pfammatter, Fries, & Brenner, 2003;
Cohen & Berk, 1985; Dittmann & Schuttler, 1990; Falloon & Talbot, 1981) have been …

Psychosocial treatments for persons with severe mental illness (SMI) have been developing
rapidly over the past decade. Despite the fact that people with SMI are often in the greatest …

Abstract Personal Assistance in Community Existence (PACE) is the National Empowerment
Center's new approach to assisting people to fully recover from mental illness at their own …

Unlearning Our Helplessness — Coexisting Serious Mental and Medical Illness | New England
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OBJECTIVE: The study evaluated the effectiveness of a three-year outpatient commitment
pilot program established in 1994 at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. METHODS: A total …

Promoting social participation is consistent with the principles of psychiatric rehabilitation of
people with severe mental illness, but lack of self-efficacy in social participation is a major …

Background Patients increasingly assume active roles in their mental health care. While
there is a growing interest in patient involvement and patient‐reported outcomes, there is …