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- Title
The Relief of a Caregiver's Burden through Guided Imagery, Role-playing, Humor, and Paradoxical Intervention.
- Authors
Yip, Kam-Shing
- Abstract
Caregiving by relatives to a person with mental illness is demanding and overwhelming. This paper describes how to use guided imagery, role-playing, humor, and paradoxical intervention to help the wife of a man with mental illness in easing her worry, anxiety, and frustration engendered by caregiving. The intervention made the wife feel normal and relaxed in facing the "symptoms" of her husband's mental illness. It also revived the wife's patience, hope, and strength in the process of rehabilitation.
- Subjects
STRESS management; CAREGIVERS; CARE of people; PEOPLE with mental illness
- Publication
American Journal of Psychotherapy (Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy), 2003, Vol 57, Issue 1, p109
- ISSN
0002-9564
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2003.57.1.109