Development of tailor-made family support program for families living with mood disorder patients.

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380938
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Atomi University
• Principal Investigator: SAKAI Yoshie 跡見学園女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (60349008)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 家族支援 / 介護負担 / 気分障害 / 双極性障害 / 心理教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Family members living with a mood disorder patients have various support needs for 1) improvement of communication between medical staffs and families, 2) learning how to deal with patients’ symptoms, 3) information on social resources, 4) psychological, financial, and economic support for families. The severity of depressive symptoms had the greatest impact on the burden of spouses living with mood disorder patients
Considering these results of our study, we developed tailor-made comprehensive program in which patients, families, and medical staffs cooperate to achieve recovery of patients. This programs contains 1) patient assessment, 2) psychological education about depressive disorders and bipolar disorders for patients and families, 3) counseling for patients and family.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学