Fiona Lobban & Christine Barrowclough 
A Casebook of Family Interventions for Psychosis 

A practical guide to implementing family interventions for psychosis, which discusses different family needs and illustrates different approaches to offering the interventions.

* Approximately 1 in 100 people experience psychosis, which can severely disrupt home and family life and place a heavy burden on carers

* A practical guide to implementing family interventions for psychosis, which discusses different family needs and illustrates different approaches to offering the interventions

* Shows how to tailor family interventions to meet different needs e.g. working via interpreter or with families in which multiple members suffer mental health problems

* No direct competition on family interventions for psychosis

Table of Content

About the Editors ix

Contributors xi

Preface xv

I INTRODUCTION 1

1 Why Are Family Interventions Important? A Family Member
Perspective 3

Martin Gregory

II FIRST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS 21

2 Family Work in Early Psychosis 23

Gráinne Fadden and Jo Smith

3 A Model of Family Work in First-Episode Psychosis: Managing
Self-Harm 47

Jean Addington, April Collins, Amanda Mc Cleery and Sabrina
Baker

4 Working with Families to Prevent Relapse in First-Episode
Psychosis 67

Kingsley Crisp and John Gleeson

III INTERVENTIONS FOCUSING ON DRUG USE 91

5 Family Intervention for Complex Cases: Substance Use and
Psychosis 93

Ian Lowens, Samantha E. Bowe and Christine Barrowclough

6 Family Motivational Intervention in Early Psychosis and
Cannabis Misuse 117

Maarten Smeerdijk, Don Linszen, Tom Kuipers and René
Keet

IV VARIETY OF ISSUES ARISING INWORKING WITH RELATIVES
139

7 A Case of Family Intervention with a ‘High EE’
Family 141

Juliana Onwumere, Ben Smith and Elizabeth Kuipers

8 Coming to Terms with Mental Illness in the Family
-Working Constructively through Its Grief 167

Virginia Lafond

9 Interventions with Siblings 185

Jo Smith, Gráinne Fadden and Michelle O’Shea

10 Family Intervention with Ethnically and Culturally Diverse
Groups 211

Juliana Onwumere, Ben Smith and Elizabeth Kuipers

V WORKING IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS 233

11 Multiple Family Groups in Early Psychosis: A Brief
Psychoeducational and Therapeutic Intervention 235

David Glentworth

12 Meeting the Needs of Families on Inpatient Units 259

Chris Mansell and Gráinne Fadden

VI SERVICE RELATED ISSUES 285

13 Setting Up a Family Interventions (FI) Service – A UK
Case Study 287

Frank Burbach and Roger Stanbridge

14 Overcoming Barriers to Staff Offering Family Interventions in
the NHS 309

Gráinne Fadden

VII RELATIVES’ SUPPORTING EACH OTHER 337

15 The COOL Approach 339

Claudia Benzies, Gwen Butcher and Tom Linton

VIII CONCLUSION 355

16 Summary and Conclusions -Where Are We up to and Where
Are We Going? 357

Fiona Lobban and Christine Barrowclough

Index 369

About the author

Dr Fiona Lobban is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical
Psychology at the Spectrum Centre for Mental Health Research at
Lancaster University in the North West of England. She also works
as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist supporting family work in the
Early Intervention Service for Psychosis in Lancashire care NHS
Trust.

Professor Christine Barrowclough is Professor of Clinical
Psychology at the University of Manchester, UK, and has been
engaged in research and clinical work with families of people with
psychosis for many years.