Empowerment is increasingly being recognized as an important outcome of psychosocial interventions. As low-resource settings move to address the treatment and social service gap for people living with schizophrenia (PLWS), interventions can monitor impacts on empowerment.
A new study, conducted by Joy Noel Baumgartner, PhD, MSSW, explores empowerment and associated factors among PLWS in Tanzania and concludes that understanding empowerment and its possible effects on recovery-centered outcomes is important when thinking of future interventions for PLWS in low-resource settings. Baumgartner says future recovery-oriented interventions and research should both consider including empowerment measurement among PLWS and incorporate their lived experiences in psychosocial treatment programming.