REWRITALIZE Your Recovery - Evaluation of a Creative Writing Group Intervention

"REWR is conceptualised as a hybrid between an art group and a group therapy intervention. It is structured as a progressive participatory art group program led by a conductor-tandem: the primary conductor, a professional writer with extensive teaching experience, is supplemented by a co-conductor with clinical expertise who participates in the group activities together with the other participants. The conductor-tandem secure high artistic standards while also ensuring psychological safety. A close collaboration between the two is necessary and both participate in a 30-hour preparatory course and are supervised during the course of the intervention.~The writing course consists in 15 sessions of 3 hours per session. At each session participants are introduced to literary texts that work as prompts for the writing exercises, which last 5-15 min. After each text is read out loud, the participants engage in a reflective discussion about the text."

"F-ACT is a community-based treatment model that provides multidisciplinary, flexible, and assertive outpatient treatment to patients with severe mental illness. OPUS is a nationally implemented 2-year-long early intervention for people with first-episode psychosis. OPUS is a multidisciplinary assertive community treatment model and offer psychoeducation, social skills training, relapse prevention and family involvement, including possibility for treatment participation in psychoeducational multifamily groups.~In F-ACT and OPUS a primary staff member is in regular contact with the patient and responsible for coordinating the treatment elements. The treatment is individual and contingent upon patients' needs."