What is Psychoeducation?
According to the National Institute of Health (2017), "Patient education (or Psychoeducation as in our case) is critical to compliance and outcome. Here patients and their relatives, by means of preliminary briefing concerning the illness, are supposed to develop a fundamental understanding of the therapy and further be convinced to commit to more long-term involvement. Psychoeducation looks to combine the factor of empowerment of the affected with scientifically founded treatment expertise in as efficient a manner as possible. It satisfies patient (and family) expectation, improves confidence in the physician, ensures that patients get their information mainly from the health care provider and less from other sources which may impart inaccurate information, as well as helps patients develop insight into their illness and therefore make better decisions and become more compliant. Psychoeducation, in addition, promotes relapse prevention, assists support of healthy components and also strengthens the role of relatives as ‘co-therapists’ to assist the therapeutic team in their goal."
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