Program description
mental disorders
The program was named AIRIKI (“the power to love” in Japanese). This program offers essential elements for overcoming barriers related to forming and maintaining of intimate and romantic relationships among those with mental disorders. The program does not aim to provide knowledge per se but to enhance participants’ own awareness and develop their own ideas about relationships by considering those with their own loved ones through sharing their experiences and thoughts. This structured program is conducted face-to-face in small groups of at most 10 people and promotes peer-led learning in which both facilitators and participants are persons with mental disorders. The program provides detailed instructions, including principles such as respect for different values, including sexual diversity, and notes the number of minutes to be allotted to each component. With reference to a family peer learning program [Table 
Components of the program