Over the last 25 years there has been an explosion of know ledge regarding the neurobiologic basis of mental illness, and the discovery of new and more effective psychopharmacologic, cognitive,and behavioral treatments (Flaskerud & Wuerker, 1999). In addition,there has been a public discussion of mental illness by patients and their families in print and over the air waves. Patient advocacy groups have sprung up, public figures discuss mental health issues as an everyday occurrence, and treatments and medications are advertised on TV. These changes have served to somewhat destigmatize mental illness and have encouraged the acceptance of non-psychotic mental disorders as clinical syndrome.