Multifamily Groups in the Treatment of Severe Psychiatric Disorders

I. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations: The Scientific Basis of Multifamily Group Treatment

1. The Psychobiology of Schizophrenia

2. Families, Social Networks, and Schizophrenia, Ellen P. Lukens and William R. McFarlane

3. The Therapeutic Social Network: A Healing Community

4. Empirical Studies of Outcome in Multifamily Groups

II. The Practice of Multifamily Group Treatment in Schizophrenia: A Psychoeducational Approach to Developing a Healing Social Network

5. An Overview of Psychoeducational Multifamily Group Treatment

6. Joining with Families and Patients, William R. McFarlane, Susan Gingerich, Susan M. Deakins, Edward Dunne, Bonnie T. Horen, and Margaret Newmark

7. Educating Families: A Multifamily Workshop on Schizophrenia, William R. McFarlane, Susan Gingerich, Susan M. Deakins, Edward Dunne, Bonnie T. Horen, and Margaret Newmark

8. The Initial Sessions of a Psychoeducational Multifamily Group: Forming a Healing Network, William R. McFarlane, Susan Gingerich, Susan M. Deakins, Edward Dunne, Bonnie T. Horen, and Margaret Newmark

9. Problem-Solving in Multifamily Groups: A Psychoeducational Approach to Treatment and Rehabilitation, William R. McFarlane, Susan Gingerich, Susan M. Deakins, Edward Dunne, Bonnie T. Horen, and Margaret Newmark

III. Applications in Other Disorders and Contexts: Expanding the Range and Relevance of Multifamily Group Treatment

10. Family-Aided Assertive Community Treatment, William R. McFarlane and Susan M. Deakins

11. Training Staff of Supportive Housing Programs in Principles and Practices of Psychoeducation: Creating a Family-Like Social Environment, Bonnie T. Horen and Jules M. Ranz

12. Multifamily Groups for Bipolar Illness, David A. Moltz and Margaret Newmark

13. Multifamily Group Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder, Gabor I. Keitner, Laura M. Drury, Christine E. Ryan, Ivan W. Miller, William H. Norman, and David A. Solomon

14. Multifamily Psychoeducational Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, Cynthia B. Berkowitz and John G. Gunderson

15. Multifamily Behavioral Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Barbara Van Noppen and Gail Steketee

16. Application of Multifamily Groups in Chronic Medical Disorders, Sandra Gonzalez and Peter Steinglass

17. Implementing Multifamily Groups in the Real World: The New York State and Ohio Training and Dissemination Programs, Lisa Dixon and Edward Dunne

Afterword, C. Christian Beels