What Professionals Need To Know About Families (on CD)
 LeRoy Spaniol & the Massachusetts NAMI/DMH Curriculum, Training, and Practice Consortium
The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University is offering a series of 5 modules—each with a trainer and participant manual and a supporting Microsoft PowerPoint presentation—all on one CD.
Manuals are in pdf format, which can be viewed and printed using free Adobe Acrobat Reader software. The manuals can be printed as needed for individual participants and multiple training sessions. Microsoft PowerPoint software is required for viewing the supporting presentations.
Who Can Benefit from the Modules?
This CD is intended for use by family members, or by professionals co-teaching with family members, to teach professionals how to work more effectively with families of people with psychiatric disabilities.
Modules Include
Recommended readings for trainers and participants
Training content and guidelines
Exercises for participants
Sample contract for participants
Pre-Post training evaluation
Module 1: The Family Experience of a Family Member with a Psychiatric Disability
Describes historical perspective, experiences, and recovery process for families of people with psychiatric disabilities.
Module 2: Changing Family Roles
Describes the new roles that family members assume when they face the crises of a family member with a psychiatric disability and teaches professionals how they can support family members in their new roles.
Module 3: Family and Practitioner Needs for Information, Skills, and Support
Presents conceptual framework for understanding the needs of families and professionals; sources of family satisfaction and dissatisfaction with mental health services; the knowledge, skill, and attitude needs of practitioners who want to be effective in their efforts to assist families; and ways professionals can provide information to families.
Module 4: Family/Professional/Consumer Collaboration
Describes why it is important for practitioners to work collaboratively with families and people with mental illnesses and outlines specific and easily accomplished suggestions for practitioners who want to work collaboratively.
Module 5: The Role of the Family Members in Recovery
Presents a conceptual framework for understanding the role of family members in recovery and ways professionals can assist family members in their recovery roles.
©2004, CD
Click here for excerpts from Trainer's Manual on the CD.
Click here for excerpts from the Participant's Manual on the CD.
Would you like to tell others about What Professionals Need to Know about Families?
An electronic version of our two-page brochure is available for download and distribution. Click on the link below.
Spaniol, L., & Massachusetts NAMI/DMH Curriculum, Training, and Practice Consortium. (2004). What Professionals Need To Know About Families. Boston: Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
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