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Chapter Seven: Psychoeducation

DOI:

10.1891/9780826128836.0007

Abstract

This chapter discusses the game of psychoeducation in the partial hospitalization program (PHP)/intensive outpatient program (IOP) setting. It discusses the challenges to imparting psychoeducation at this level of care. The chapter suggests a game for organizing, implementing, and evaluating a psychoeducational rotation that can be integrated into the existing workload of the clinician. The challenges of psychoeducation at the PHP/IOP level are both patient related and staff related. The challenge of redundancy refers to clinical-staff repeating the same educational material to the same group of patients. The challenge of discreteness refers to the separateness of each psycho-educational presentation. The development of the psychoeducational strategy requires staff cooperation in the evaluation, planning, and implementation phases. Although the psychoeducational topics should avoid overtly provocative subjects, the greater matter is that the staff is in agreement and works together to produce and implement the rotation.