Course Description
Families often become the front-line caregivers for people living with schizophrenia, yet they are too often left out of the treatment conversation. In this deeply personal keynote, author, advocate, and mother Randye Kaye shares her family's journey through psychosis, anosognosia, homelessness, addiction, incarceration, recovery, and hope. Through stories of heartbreak, resilience, and unexpected breakthroughs, attendees will gain a firsthand understanding of the emotional toll of caregiving and the critical role compassionate collaboration can play in improving outcomes. This session will inspire psychiatric pharmacists to see families as valued partners in care and explore practical ways to build trust, improve communication, and support recovery for both patients and those who love them.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the emotional, practical, and systemic challenges families face while caring for a loved one living with schizophrenia.
- Describe how anosognosia, substance use, and fragmented systems of care affect medication adherence, treatment engagement, and family dynamics.
- Identify practical strategies psychiatric pharmacists can use to communicate effectively and collaborate with family caregivers while respecting patient-centered care and privacy considerations.
- Explain a family-partnership approach that fosters empathy, trust, and shared hope, leading to stronger support systems and better recovery outcomes.
Target Audience
If you are a pharmacist, nurse practitioner, or other health care professional involved in the comprehensive medication management of individuals living with mental health and/or substance use disorders, we invite you to participate in this online course.
Faculty
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Randye Kaye
Author, Speaker, Podcaster, Advocate
Trumbull, CT
Randye Kaye is the co-creator and host of the popular podcast, Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches. She is the Connecticut State Trainer for NAMI’s Family-to-Family Course, and is the author of Ben Behind His Voices: One Family's Journey From the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope (Rowman & Littlefield,), and Happier Made Simple: Choose Your Words. Change Your Life (Front Porch Press, 2022). She's also an actor, voice talent, radio broadcaster (WSHU Public Radio), audiobook narrator, teacher and speaker. She has spoken at CIT International, American Psychiatric Association, APNA, and The Missouri Behavioral Health Council. Her WSHU podcast, Good at Heart: Conversations with People Quietly Making the World Better, focuses on the good in us all.
Her son, Ben, has been hospitalized over ten times for schizophrenia, and has gone from homeless to housed, addicted to sober, gainfully employed to purposeless, there and back again more times than his family can count. Periods of recovery are thanks to the skills, knowledge, and caring of police, doctors, social workers, pharmacists, researchers, family, and more mental health partners."
Course Requirements
To receive ACPE credit for this session, you must:
- Register for this course.
- Review the full content of the activity and reflect upon its teachings.
- Complete the evaluation at the end of the activity.
- Provide the necessary details in your profile to ensure correct reporting by AAPP to CPE Monitor.
Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures
Activity Dates: 4/4/2027-4/4/2030
ACPE Contact Hours: 1.0
ACPE Number: 0284-0000-##-###-###-P (Knowledge)
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The American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
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