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Session 5: "Family Perspectives and Engagement" with Sydney Harris, Ishaa Vinod Chopra, and Hilary Mairs, PhD
Part 1: Sydney Harris and Ishaa Vinod Chopra - Family Member Perspective
The format of this session will be a dialog, including questions and answers. The session will explore how we define “negative symptoms”, how they might be viewed by family members, and by their loved ones. People with negative symptoms may agree or have quite different perspectives. To complicate things, there can also be disagreement between family members, spouses, siblings, grandparents and extended family.
No matter how we define negative symptoms, they are usually problematic for everyone. What exacerbates the negative symptoms and/or stress within the family? How do we cope? What works and what doesn’t? This varies from person to person, but there are also commonalities.
Part 2: Hilary Mairs, PhD – Working with Families to Improve Expressivity and Motivation
Recent approaches that embed family-based interventions into all aspects of mental health care appear to offer the most promise in reducing negative symptoms, particularly in the early stages of psychosis. This talk explores the background, theory and practice of working with families to support people with psychosis and limited emotional expression and activity. Strategies for mental health practitioners to engage carers in positive alliances and the structured psychosocial interventions distilled in these approaches will be highlighted.
Presenter Bios:
Professor Hilary Mairs is an Occupational Therapist and currently the Head of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work and Deputy Head of the School of Health Sciences at the University of Manchester
Sydney Harris, M.AmSAT is a mother of an adult son that experiences extreme states and serves on the Board of Directors of ISPS-US
Ishaa Vinod Chopra is a MSc. Candidate in Critical Family and Kinship Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada. She has lived experience of extreme states and is the founder of the Finding Order in Disorder Foundation. Full Presenter Bios can be found here: https://isps-us.org/negative-symptoms/info.html
