Families and Mental Illness.

Families and Mental IllnessThe first person accounts provided in this week’s readings focus on how family members experience and react to a loved one’s (son, mother, sibling) mental illness. In your response:•Identify one aspect of the family experience that surprised you, including examples from the first person accounts;•Reflect on how using a family psychoeducational approach (described in the first reading) might be helpful to families experiencing the issue you chose to highlight.ReadingThe following readings can be found in the Reading List:•Lukens E., & Thorning, H. (2010). Psychoeducational family groups. In A. Rubin, D.W Springer, & K. Trawver (eds.), Psychosocial treatment of schizophrenia (pp. 89-144).•Family Member First Person Accounts of Mental Illness:oHyland, B. (2001). A thousand cloudy days. Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, 3(1): 50-68.oBrodoff, A. S. (1988). First person account: Schizophrenia through a sister’s eyes—The burden of invisible baggage. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 14(1), 113–116.oLanquetot, R. (1983). First person account: confessions of the daughter of a schizophrenic. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 10(3), 467–471.oNeugeboren, J. (1994). Meanwhile, back on the ward. The American Scholar, 63(3), 337–348.oKanter, J., & Bernheim, K. F. (1995). Terri: Family-Centered Case Management. New directions for mental health services, 1995(65), 23-36. (this is the case that the family intervention group presentation will use to develop their roleplay)