Neuroscience-informed psychoeducation for addiction medicine: A neurocognitive perspective.

ABSTRACT: Psychoeducation (PE) is defined as an intervention with systematic, structured, and didactic knowledge transfer for an illness and its treatment, integrating emotional and motivational aspects to enable patients to cope with the illness and to improve its treatment adherence and efficacy. PE is considered an important component of treatment in both medical and psychiatric disorders, especially for mental health disorders associated with lack of insight, such as alcohol and substance use disorders (ASUDs). New advancements in neuroscience have shed light on how various aspects of ASUDs may relate to neural processes. However, the actual impact of neuroscience in the real-life clinical practice of addiction medicine is minimal. In this chapter, we provide a perspective on how PE in addiction

SUBMITTER: Ekhtiari H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5771228 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature