After listening to and/or reading this
interview, participants should be able to:
- Appreciate that therapists can be most helpful
to families coming for help with a troubled child by first acknowledging that
the whole family is stressed by the situation.
- Recognize that situation of families of
schizophrenic patients is one of constant in crisis.
- Understand that the therapist's responsibility
to families coming for help with a troubled child is primarily to provide
resources to help with the families' practical problems.
- Appreciate the changing needs of families over
the course of their schizophrenic child's life.
- Appreciate that the parents' grieving process about a mentally ill child's prospects in life occurs in every stage of the child's life.