Training and disseminating family interventions for schizophrenia: developing family intervention skills with multi-disciplinary groups.

Family interventions for psychosis are not routinely available, in spite of a robust evidence base, clear policies and guidelines, and requests from service recipients. The reasons for this are complex involving three key groups: service recipients, clinicians and organizations. This paper first of all identifies barriers to implementation in relation to each of these groups. It then outlines a range of strategies that may be employed at a number of levels to bring about change in each of these systems. The strategies are drawn from current research in the area, and from experiences over a seven-year period in the Meriden West Midlands Family Programme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]