Family Empowerment as an Effort to Increase Family Independence in Caring for Clients with Mental Disorders at Home: A Literature Review

Abstract

As a smallest and closest system with clients with mental disorders, a family has function to be a caregiver. This function includes promotive, preventive, early detection, curative and rehabilitative efforts. This study aims to identify the family role as a caregiver in caring for clients with mental disorders through family empowerment. As a literature review, it has taken five articles from Garuda and Scopus published in 2013-2021. The keywords are family empowerment, family tasks for clients with schizophrenia, caregivers, and family empowerment in schizophrenia. The result stated the education technique have been frequently applied as a family empowering. This technique Education has proven to be an effective way of managing family emotions and increasing the family's ability to treat clients with mental disorders, thereby reducing recurrence. Meanwhile, family empowerment activities include early detection, treatment activities, and relapse prevention which are taught and must be carried out by the family independently. However, not all families can receive education and care for a client with mental disorders at home. Family empowerment is a major component in determining the success of treating mental patients at home. Therefore, it is necessary to encourage family by offering acceptable solution-based way; a coaching method.