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What do the Carers of People with Schizophrenia Find Helpful and Unhelpful about Psycho‐Education?
Author(s) -
Budd Richard J.,
Hughes Ian C. T.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
clinical psychology and psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.315
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1099-0879
pISSN - 1063-3995
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0879(199706)4:2<118::aid-cpp108>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - psychology , intervention (counseling) , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , clinical psychology , content (measure theory) , reliability (semiconductor) , psychotherapist , psychiatry , mathematical analysis , power (physics) , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics
Following a family intervention programme for schizophrenia sufferers 20 carers completed a semi‐structured interview to identify which aspects of the educational component of the intervention they had found helpful and unhelpful. Their responses were then content analysed to identify the perceived therapeutic impacts of the education programme. Data are presented indicating a high level of inter‐rater reliability for the content analysis. The frequency with which carers cited each therapeutic impact is reported and the significance of these findings for psycho‐education programmes is discussed. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.