Introduction
According to the guidelines of the American Psychiatric
Association (APA)1 and the DGPPN (German Society
for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology),2 psychoeducational
interventions belong to a standard therapy
program in acute and postacute phases of patients
with schizophrenia.3 In the Cochrane analysis of Pekkala
et al,4 such interventions were accompanied by a higher
level of compliance, lower rate of relapse, and improved
psychopathological status. In the context of the currently
internationally recognized vulnerability-stress–coping
model, with its assumption of a biopsychosocial cluster
of causes,5–7 psychoeducational interventions as an
‘‘obligatory-exercise’’ program provide the foundation
for numerous further treatment measures.