Multi-Family Psycho-Education Group for Assertive Community Treatment Clients and Families of Culturally Diverse Background: A Pilot Study

This study evaluates the incorporation of Multi-Family Psycho-education Group (MFPG) to an Assertive Community Treatment Team developed to serve culturally diverse clients who suffers from severe mental illness. Participants included Chinese and Tamil clients and their family members. Family members...

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Autores principales: Chow, Wendy, Law, Samuel, Andermann, Lisa, Yang, Jian, Leszcz, Molyn, Wong, Jiahui, Sadavoy, Joel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2010
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2910877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414724
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-010-9305-5
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author Chow, Wendy
Law, Samuel
Andermann, Lisa
Yang, Jian
Leszcz, Molyn
Wong, Jiahui
Sadavoy, Joel
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Law, Samuel
Andermann, Lisa
Yang, Jian
Leszcz, Molyn
Wong, Jiahui
Sadavoy, Joel
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description This study evaluates the incorporation of Multi-Family Psycho-education Group (MFPG) to an Assertive Community Treatment Team developed to serve culturally diverse clients who suffers from severe mental illness. Participants included Chinese and Tamil clients and their family members. Family members’ well-being, perceived burden, and acceptance of clients were assessed before and after the intervention. Focus group interviews with clinicians were conducted to qualitatively examine MFPG. Family members’ acceptance increased after MFPG. Regular attendance was associated with reduction in perceived family burden. Culturally competent delivery of MFPG enhanced family members’ understanding of mental illness and reduced stress levels and negative feelings towards clients.
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spelling pubmed-29108772010-08-09 Multi-Family Psycho-Education Group for Assertive Community Treatment Clients and Families of Culturally Diverse Background: A Pilot Study Chow, Wendy Law, Samuel Andermann, Lisa Yang, Jian Leszcz, Molyn Wong, Jiahui Sadavoy, Joel Community Ment Health J Original Paper This study evaluates the incorporation of Multi-Family Psycho-education Group (MFPG) to an Assertive Community Treatment Team developed to serve culturally diverse clients who suffers from severe mental illness. Participants included Chinese and Tamil clients and their family members. Family members’ well-being, perceived burden, and acceptance of clients were assessed before and after the intervention. Focus group interviews with clinicians were conducted to qualitatively examine MFPG. Family members’ acceptance increased after MFPG. Regular attendance was associated with reduction in perceived family burden. Culturally competent delivery of MFPG enhanced family members’ understanding of mental illness and reduced stress levels and negative feelings towards clients. Springer US 2010-04-23 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2910877/ /pubmed/20414724 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-010-9305-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
spellingShingle Original Paper
Chow, Wendy
Law, Samuel
Andermann, Lisa
Yang, Jian
Leszcz, Molyn
Wong, Jiahui
Sadavoy, Joel
Multi-Family Psycho-Education Group for Assertive Community Treatment Clients and Families of Culturally Diverse Background: A Pilot Study
title Multi-Family Psycho-Education Group for Assertive Community Treatment Clients and Families of Culturally Diverse Background: A Pilot Study
title_full Multi-Family Psycho-Education Group for Assertive Community Treatment Clients and Families of Culturally Diverse Background: A Pilot Study
title_fullStr Multi-Family Psycho-Education Group for Assertive Community Treatment Clients and Families of Culturally Diverse Background: A Pilot Study
title_full_unstemmed Multi-Family Psycho-Education Group for Assertive Community Treatment Clients and Families of Culturally Diverse Background: A Pilot Study
title_short Multi-Family Psycho-Education Group for Assertive Community Treatment Clients and Families of Culturally Diverse Background: A Pilot Study
title_sort multi-family psycho-education group for assertive community treatment clients and families of culturally diverse background: a pilot study
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2910877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414724
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-010-9305-5
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