GUIDES FOR:

MENTAL HEALTH
PROFESSIONALS
AND TRAINEES


PRIMARY CARE
PROVIDERS


FAMILY CAREGIVERS


The aims of these guides are:
1. To educate mental health professionals and professionals-in-training about
how schizophrenia affects the consumer and his/her family in ways that
textbooks cannot.
2. To show the importance of family involvement in the treatment of persons
with serious mental illness.
3. To help mental health professionals view their patients with a more
integrative approach so as to better serve their patients long term
treatment needs.

Schizophrenia and the Family

Psychosocial Treatment and the Revolving-Door Patient

Psychopharmacological Treatment for Improved Patient Outcomes