Friends, Family & Carers Forum

[Appleblossom]

Sometimes it helps to put our own situation in a broader perspective:

www.bjmp.org/content/psychological-distress-carers-people-mental-disorders

[Lunar]

Super interesting article @Appleblossom, especially the coping strategy part:

An important role for health-care professionals is in helping caregivers enhance their coping skills, supporting existing skills and facilitating the development of new ones.

· Training and education programs

· Information-technology based support

· Formal approaches to planning care

· Combination of education and emotional support

· Spiritual support 

· Religious coping

· Positive strategies for managing disturbed behaviour 

· High quality of informal relationships and presence of informal support

· Psychotherapy

· Cognitive-behavioural family intervention

[Shaz51]

Hello @Appleblossom, @Lunar

I totally agree , a interesting article