Psychoeducation involves learning about and understanding mental health and wellbeing its similar to physical education where you learn about how your body works how to look after it and the impacts of different strains or stressors but instead you apply this to the mind. In psychoeducation in mental health joseph walsh offers a clear guide to human services practitioners looking to expand their professional toolkit with psychoeducational methods in this book walsh incorporates the theories and fundamental curative factors of all psychoeducational interventions as well as tips for professionals to . Psychoeducation is a specific form of education it is aimed at helping persons with a mental illness or anyone with an interest in mental illness to access the facts about a broad range of mental illnesses in a clear and concise manner it is also a way of accessing and learning strategies to deal with mental illness and its effects. All of the following may constitute psychoeducation a therapist explaining to a person in therapy the ways a mental health condition might impact function a psychiatrist describing how a prescribed medication can counteract symptoms of a mental health condition a psychiatric hospital providing