Nurses working at psychiatric hospital are in challenging and a potentially high stress. The impact of stress and professional challenges can lead to harmful impacts for those nurses as burnout or physical and mental health problems. Resilience is a positive adaptation to nurses" stress management ability and mental wellbeing. The aim of this study is to promote the resilience among nurses caring for patients with psychiatric disorders. Setting: the study was conducted at Tanta Mental Health Hospital. Subjects: 60 nurses were recruited in the study. Tool: it was composed of two main parts: part1: Socio Demographic characteristics and work experience data were developed by the researchers. Part 2: The Connor -Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) is a self-rated assessment of stress coping ability. The scale was developed based on concepts of hardiness, adaptation, and stress endurance. It is 25 items, all of which carry a 5-point range of responses. Total sum scores range between 0-100, with higher scores indicating greater perceived resilience. Result: There was a statistically significant difference between total means scores of (CD-RISC) scale pre and post-program (8.632 P < 0.05). The studied psychiatric nurses had moderate resilience mean score pre-program, while, the means score of resilience was high post education program. Conclusion: the resilience health education program is an effective tool in promoting the resilience. Recommendation: Further research should be collaborated about work environments is an important factor to improve resilience and promote an effective work atmosphere for the nurses and suggesting mentorship programs in order to improve resilience by improving positive and supportive professional relationships, emotional insight, life balance and spirituality.

Background: The chronic burden of care to a patient with schizophrenia which produce negative emotions. As a result of de-institutionalization, caregivers have greater burden for the care of their mentally ill relatives. Objective of this study was to explore the relationship of relatives' illness perception, expressed emotion and their burden in caring for patients with schizophrenia. Design: This study followed a correlation descriptive research design. Setting: This study conducted at inpatient and outpatient psychiatric department of Tanta University Hospital. Subject: The study subjects consist of 100 relatives of patient with schizophrenia. Tools: Tool 1 consisted of 2 parts: Part 1 Socio-demographic and general characteristics of studied participants, Part 2 Illness Perception Questionnaire-Schizophrenia Carers Version (IPQ-SCV), Tool 2 Family Questionnaire (FQ), Tool 3 Caregiver Burden Interview. Results: it was found that the studied participants had poor illness perception total score, it was found that the studied subjects (47%) had high emotional over-involvement level while it was observed that the two thirds of the studied relatives (61%) had high level of family criticism. majority of studied participants had moderate level of family burden. Conclusion: The results concluded that there was a significant positive correlation between family illness perception and family expressed emotion, also there was a significant positive correlation between family emotional expression and family burden level. Recommendations: this study recommended future studies to investigate distress and burden among caregivers with high emotion expression for intervention, reducing family stress and burden.