Maintaining Hope

Highlights:
Family members share their thoughts about maintaining and promoting hope for caregiving families living with mental illness, and signals of change they are seeing that encourages this. (2:33)

Questions for Discussion:

• Family members wanted to impart the importance of hope to other
  caregiving families. Why do you think holding onto hope is so important to facilitate coping with mental illness as a caregiving family?
• Discuss how healthcare settings and providers can be more supportive of this and contribute to keeping hope alive for families they work with.