The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of the communication training program in helping families of chronic mentally ill patients. A guasi-experimental pre-post design was used to as-sess the effects of the program.
The program that used for communication training was based on communication training program usd in KCC(Korea Counseling Center) and transactional analysis program used in KATA(Korea Academy for Transactional Analysis) and re-constructed by author.
The effectiveness of the program in terms of the relationship changes was investigated through RCS (Relationship Change Scale) developed by Schien and Guerney. A total of 10 long-term men-tally ill patients family care providers participated in the study. The program was performed 6 times, once a week, and 2 hours a time, in the fashion of lectures and free discussions among the multiple family groups from Jurie 8 to July 13, 1999.
The result of this study is summaried as follows
1. The communication training program was effective in improving the interpersonal relationship in the families of chronic mentally ill patients.
2. The communication training program was effective in improving the feeling of sensitivity, intimacy, communication, openness, mutual under-standing for personal relation.
3. Together with this result, the necessity of the further study on the development and the application of family program is strongly suggested.
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