and conducted at home (12), the mutual support used in this study provides a flexible client-led group In contrast with the suggestion that family intervention should be of at least nine months' duration environment with only a six-month intervention, yet it still demonstrated a significant positive effect on patients' functioning and readmission compared with both standard individual care and multiple-family education. Indeed, as with single-family interventions, emphasis and time spent on the families' problem solving, effective coping, and patient management in a timely and accurate fashion is also feasible in this multiple-family support group (25,30).