The purpose of our study is that group information to the patient and the family about the disease in order to increase the compliance to the treatment and to decrease the relapse with positive change is the ability of handling. Most of the recent studies have shown that, this kind of methods affect positively on both the patients and their family. This study which developed from psychiatry, psychology and education sources and application results proved that it was an available model in psychiatry. A model that replays to the patient and his families needs was established in that model different than the orders on educational program was developed on the subject of instructional principles. Education and instructional concepts was discussed and the psychoeducational studies was based on this subjects. Besides, the educational program, their application, kinds of instruction the instruction model and the educational efforts importance was inquired. This model includes the group sessions for the patients and their family which were added to the standard hospital treatment.

This research was planned on 5 days, 2 hours lasting sessions on thirty Psychiatry linic of Bakırköy Psychiatry Hospital. Psychoeducational approaches were presented to the patients with slides that were prepared by Microsoft power point program on computer. There slides comprise six main subject headline that were; 1- Educational 34, 2- Etiology of the disease, 3- Symtoms of the disease 70 (depression 45, mania 30), 4- Drug therapy and side effects 80, 5- Family 34. Bipolar diseased patients method the DSM IV criterions who had the standard therapy on the clinic and the families who we had related. We used a trial method which pretest and final test with control groups. As in the trial group 40 patients, 40 family and the control group with 40 patients and their family a total of 10 were studied. We used fave means of data in our study. We used the scalar often he validity and the reliability were tested. For data analysis, related t test unrelated t test bidimensional variant analyze were used. In statistic dealing .05 identified as significant value.