Resource Library: 

Family Institute Training Materials

  1. Family Involvement Decisional Balance Exercise
  2. Family Services Fact Sheet for PROS
  3. Consumer Centered Family Consultation Progress Note
  4. Consumer Centered Family Consultation Training & Resource Manual
  5. Consumer Centered Family Consultation Decision Guide
  6. Pre-Planning Meeting Tool
  7. Values Clarification Exercise Worksheet- Part Two
  8. Values Clarification Exercise Cards- Part One
  9. Family Guidelines-Spanish version
  10. Family Consultation Brochure-Spanish version
  11. Implementation Guide Questions to Consider
  12. Consumer Centered Family Consultation Brochure
  13. Consumer and Family Needs Assessment Survey
  14. Family Survival Handbook
  15. Family Participation Flyer
  16. HIPPA Booklet

Books

  1. Break the Bipolar Cycle
  2. The Bipolar Handbook: Real-Life Questions with Up-to-Date Answers
  3. Henry’s Demons: A Father and Son’s Journey Out of Madness
  4. Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope
  5. Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Individuals and Families
  6. Welcome to the Jungle: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bipolar but Were Too Freaked Out to Ask
  7. A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science Behind Three Generations of Mental Illness
  8. 50 Signs of Mental Illness
  9. 72 Hour Hold
  10. A Mood Apart: Depression, mania, and other afflictions of the self
  11. An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness
  12. Behavioral Family Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders
  13. Bipolar Disorder: A Family-Focused Treatment Approach.
  14. Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families
  15. Bipolar disorder demystified: Mastering the tightrope of manic depression
  16. Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPD
  17. Coping with Anxiety and Panic Attacks
  18. Coping with Schizophrenia: A Guide for Families
  19. Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness
  20. Depression Fallout
  21. Divided Minds,Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
  22. Family Education in Mental Illness
  23. The Family Intervention Guide to Mental Illness: Recognizing Symptoms and Getting Treatment
  24. Grieving Mental Illness, a Guide for Patients and Their Caregivers
  25. Handbook of Social Functioning in Schizophrenia
  26. Helping Families Cope with Mental Illness
  27. Helping Someone with a Mental Illness: A Compassionate Guide for Family, Friends and Caregivers
  28. Hidden Victims, Hidden Healers
  29. I Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help!: How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment
  30. Living and Working with Schizophrenia
  31. Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings
  32. Manic Depressive Illness
  33. Multifamily Groups in the Treatment of Severe Psychiatric Disorders
  34. Multiple Family Psychoeducational Group Treatment Manual
  35. New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder
  36. Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the family
  37. Out of the Shadows Confronting America’s Mental Illness Crisis
  38. Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It
  39. Recovered, not cured: A Journey Through Schizophrenia
  40. Schizophrenia and the Family: A Practitioner’s Guide to Psychoeducation and Management
  41. Schizophrenia Digest (Magazine)
  42. Schizophrenia: Straight Talk for Family and Friends
  43. Serious Mental Illness and the Family
  44. Surviving Schizophrenia: A manual for families, consumers, and providers (4th edition)
  45. The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia
  46. The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide
  47. The Day the Voices Stopped
  48. The Family Care of Schizophrenia: A Problem-solving Approach to the Treatment of Mental Illness
  49. The Noonday Demon: An atlas of depression
  50. The Peace of Mind Prescription
  51. The Quiet Room
  52. Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness
  53. We Heard the Angels of Madness: One Family’s Struggle with Manic Depression
  54. When Madness Comes Home: Help and Hope for the Families of the Mentally Ill
  55. When Someone You Love Has a Mental Illness: A Handbook For Family, Friends and Caregivers
  56. The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
  57. Hurry Down Sunshine
  58. Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family’s Schizophrenia
  59. A Fight to Be: A Psychologist’s Experience from Both Sides of the Locked Door
  60. Madness, A Bipolar Life
  61. The Invisible Plague: the Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
  62. The Scarred Soul
  63. A Balanced Life, 9 Strategies for Coping with the Mental Health Problems of a Loved One
  64. Crazy in America, The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill

Videos

  1. Depression: Out of the Shadows
  2. Understanding the Person Who Hears Distressing Voices
  3. The Politics of Memory
  4. Recovery: The Experience and the Evidence
  5. Inside Outside: Building a Meaningful Life After the Hospital
  6. Dark Glasses and Kaleidoscopes: Living with Manic Depression and Bipolar Disorder
  7. Four Lives: Portraits in Manic Depression
  8. I Love You Like Crazy: Being a Parent with Mental Illness
  9. Invisible Workforce
  10. Recovering from Mental Illness, The Bonnie Tapes
  11. Reach One, Teach One: The Peer Educators Project in Action
  12. Schizophrenia: Voices of an Illness (audio CD narrated by Jason Robards)

Published Articles

  1. The President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health: Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America
  2. Detection of Depression in Older Adults by Family and Friends: Distinguishing Mood Disorder Signals from the Noise of Personality and Everyday Life
  3. The Role of the Family and Improvement in Treatment, Maintenance, Adherence, and Outcome for Schizophrenia
  4. The Invisible Children’s Project: Key Ingredients of an Intervention for Parents With Mental Illness
  5. Predictors of Patient and Caregiver Distress in an Adult Sample with Bipolar Disorder Seeking Family Treatment
  6. A Survey of Programs for Parents with Mental Illness and their Families: Identifying Common Elements to Build the Evidence Base
  7. Family-focused Treatment for Caregivers of Patients with Bipolar Disorder
  8. Family Psychoeducation for Major Depression: Randomized Controlled Trial
  9. Global Perspective of Burden of Family Caregivers for Persons With Schizophrenia
  10. Caregivers’ Stresses when Living Together or Apart from Patients with Chronic Schizophenia
  11. Recoding Past Experiences: A Qualitative Study of How Patients and Family Members Adjust to the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder
  12. Dissemination of Educational Classes for Families of Adults with Schizophrenia
  13. Evidence-Based Practices for Services to Families of People with Psychiatric Disabilities
  14. Family-Focused Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: 1-Year Effects of a Psychoeducational Program in Conjunction with Pharmacotherapy
  15. Family-Responsive Psychoeducation Groups for Families with an Adult Member with Mental Illness: Pilot Results
  16. Helping Elderly Caregivers Plan for the Future Care of a Relative with Mental Illness
  17. Journey of Hope Program Outcomes
  18. Multiple Family Groups and Psychoeducation in the Treatment of Schizophrenia
  19. New York State’s Campaign to Implement Evidence Based Practices for People with Serious Mental Disorders
  20. Pilot Study of the Effectiveness of the Family-to-Family Education Program
  21. Planning by Older Mothers for the Future Care of Offspring with Serious Mental Illness
  22. Predictors of Dissemination of Family Psychoeducation in Community Mental Health Centers in Maine and Illinois
  23. Quality of Life: Perspectives of People with Mental Illness and Family Members
  24. The Effect of Family Interventions on Relapse and Rehospitalization in Schizophrenia — A Meta-analysis
  25. The Impact of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Family System Relationship on Problems Identified by Families Coping with a Mentally Ill Member
  26. The Psychosocial Treatment of Schizophrenia: An Update
  27. Searching for a Normal Life: Personal Accounts of Adults with Schizophrenia, Their Parents and Well-Siblings
  28. The Support and Family Education Program (SAFE): Mental Health Facts for Families
  29. Therapists’ Contacts with Family Members of Persons with Severe Mental Illness in a Community Treatment Program
  30. Update on Family Psychoeducation for Schizophrenia
  31. The Family Forum: Directions for the Implementation of Family Psychoeducation for Severe Mental Illness
  32. Procedures to Share Treatment Information Among Mental Health Providers, Consumers, and Families
  33. Review: Psychotic-Spectrum Illness and Family-Based Treatments: A Case-Based Illustration of the Underuse of Family Interventions

Websites

  1. Center For Mental Health Services
  2. National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
  3. National Empowerment Center, Inc.
  4. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  5. National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network
  6. Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC)
  7. The Treatment Advocacy Center
  8. Seeds of Hope Books
  9. New York City Network of Care
  10. World Fellowship for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders

Webinars

  1. Families Matter: A CCFC approach to helping ACT recipients achieve their recovery-oriented goals
  2. Performance Indicator Data Webinar
  3. Spectrum of Family Services Resources and Supports for NYS PROS Teams Informational Forums
  4. Webinar # 1
  5. Webinar # 2