Late 'Early Intervention in Psychosis': A Family School for Learning How to Live with Schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT: The paper describes a family school for learning how to live with schizophrenia, which was founded in 1986 in Vienna, Austria, and is still running today. It was established in cooperation between professionals and the Austrian self-help association HPE of the relatives of persons with mental disorders. It addresses the needs of 10 families at a time, in cases where a son or a daughter was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had already experienced one or several episodes of the illness. The course lasts one and a half years and is organized according to the model of a weekly boarding school, where 10 children, the "residents", stay in the school overnight from Sunday evening to Friday and take part in a structured program on cognitive, social and practical life skills. Ambulatory psychiatric

SUBMITTER: Katschnig H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11262250 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature