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Moderated Online Social Therapy: A Model for Reducing Stress in Carers of Young People Diagnosed with Mental Health Disorders
Family members caring for a young person diagnosed with the onset of mental health problems face heightened stress, depression, and social isolation. Despite evidence for the effectiveness of family based interventions, sustaining access to specialist family interventions is a major challenge. The a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378069/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28421012 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00485 |
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author | Gleeson, John Lederman, Reeva Koval, Peter Wadley, Greg Bendall, Sarah Cotton, Sue Herrman, Helen Crisp, Kingsley Alvarez-Jimenez, Mario |
author_facet | Gleeson, John Lederman, Reeva Koval, Peter Wadley, Greg Bendall, Sarah Cotton, Sue Herrman, Helen Crisp, Kingsley Alvarez-Jimenez, Mario |
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description | Family members caring for a young person diagnosed with the onset of mental health problems face heightened stress, depression, and social isolation. Despite evidence for the effectiveness of family based interventions, sustaining access to specialist family interventions is a major challenge. The availability of the Internet provides possibilities to expand and sustain access to evidence-based psychoeducation and personal support for family members. In this paper we describe the therapeutic model and the components of our purpose-built moderated online social therapy (MOST) program for families. We outline the background to its development, beginning with our face-to-face EPISODE II family intervention, which informed our selection of therapeutic content, and the integration of recent developments in positive psychology. Our online interventions for carers integrate online therapy, online social networking, peer and expert support, and online social problem solving which has been designed to reduce stress in carers. The initial version of our application entitled Meridian was shown to be safe, acceptable, and feasible in a feasibility study of carers of youth diagnosed with depression and anxiety. There was a significant reduction in self-reported levels of stress in caregivers and change in stress was significantly correlated with use of the system. We have subsequently launched a cluster RCT for caregivers with a relative diagnosed with first-episode psychosis. Our intervention has the potential to improve access to effective specialist support for families facing the onset of serious mental health problems in their young relative. |
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spelling | pubmed-53780692017-04-18 Moderated Online Social Therapy: A Model for Reducing Stress in Carers of Young People Diagnosed with Mental Health Disorders Gleeson, John Lederman, Reeva Koval, Peter Wadley, Greg Bendall, Sarah Cotton, Sue Herrman, Helen Crisp, Kingsley Alvarez-Jimenez, Mario Front Psychol Psychology Family members caring for a young person diagnosed with the onset of mental health problems face heightened stress, depression, and social isolation. Despite evidence for the effectiveness of family based interventions, sustaining access to specialist family interventions is a major challenge. The availability of the Internet provides possibilities to expand and sustain access to evidence-based psychoeducation and personal support for family members. In this paper we describe the therapeutic model and the components of our purpose-built moderated online social therapy (MOST) program for families. We outline the background to its development, beginning with our face-to-face EPISODE II family intervention, which informed our selection of therapeutic content, and the integration of recent developments in positive psychology. Our online interventions for carers integrate online therapy, online social networking, peer and expert support, and online social problem solving which has been designed to reduce stress in carers. The initial version of our application entitled Meridian was shown to be safe, acceptable, and feasible in a feasibility study of carers of youth diagnosed with depression and anxiety. There was a significant reduction in self-reported levels of stress in caregivers and change in stress was significantly correlated with use of the system. We have subsequently launched a cluster RCT for caregivers with a relative diagnosed with first-episode psychosis. Our intervention has the potential to improve access to effective specialist support for families facing the onset of serious mental health problems in their young relative. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5378069/ /pubmed/28421012 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00485 Text en Copyright © 2017 Gleeson, Lederman, Koval, Wadley, Bendall, Cotton, Herrman, Crisp and Alvarez-Jimenez. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Gleeson, John Lederman, Reeva Koval, Peter Wadley, Greg Bendall, Sarah Cotton, Sue Herrman, Helen Crisp, Kingsley Alvarez-Jimenez, Mario Moderated Online Social Therapy: A Model for Reducing Stress in Carers of Young People Diagnosed with Mental Health Disorders |
title | Moderated Online Social Therapy: A Model for Reducing Stress in Carers of Young People Diagnosed with Mental Health Disorders |
title_full | Moderated Online Social Therapy: A Model for Reducing Stress in Carers of Young People Diagnosed with Mental Health Disorders |
title_fullStr | Moderated Online Social Therapy: A Model for Reducing Stress in Carers of Young People Diagnosed with Mental Health Disorders |
title_full_unstemmed | Moderated Online Social Therapy: A Model for Reducing Stress in Carers of Young People Diagnosed with Mental Health Disorders |
title_short | Moderated Online Social Therapy: A Model for Reducing Stress in Carers of Young People Diagnosed with Mental Health Disorders |
title_sort | moderated online social therapy: a model for reducing stress in carers of young people diagnosed with mental health disorders |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378069/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28421012 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00485 |
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