Incorporating psycho-educational family and carers work into routine clinical practice

There is growing evidence of the benefits of family and carers interventions using a psycho-educational model for carers of people with psychosis. In order to get this work into clinical practice, a network of interrelated services for carers and families of people with psychoses has been established in Reading, Berkshire. This paper reports the experience of the authors in establishing these services using a series of practice development initiatives including training for staff, education programmes, integration projects and collaboration across organizations. This work illustrates change processes through which evidence-based practice has been incorporated into routine clinical care and in which research-based assessment and evaluation tools have being used in routine clinical practice to measure outcomes.