Posted by noa on February 10, 2003, at 17:41:59
In reply to Depression and break-up of the extended family, posted by FredPotter on February 9, 2003, at 14:20:38
Interesting. On "The Infinite Mind" (radio program) last night, the topic was family oriented programs for treating major mental illness. The guests had studied model programs that included families of adults with mental illness, (who were also on medication) and found that treatment was much more successful than for those without the family component. The family component is apparently a combo of education, family therapy, reinforcing family support systems, and affiliation with other families struggling with similar problems, etc, etc.
The show ended with John Hockenberry's commentary and he commented on the lack of extended family in recent decades--about how we have moved to the nuclear family model and live away from extended family support systems, and for single adults there is neither nuclear family nor extended.
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