The relief of a caregiver's burden through guided imagery, role-playing, humor, and paradoxical intervention
Yip, K-Shing.
American Journal of PsychoTherapy 57(1): 109-121
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9564 PMID: 12647573 Document Number: 566158
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.