Since then, I focused my professional, academic and research career on mental illnesses, with my research being mainly on the determinants of quality of life, and on exploring how psychological interventions may contribute to the improvement of this important patient-reported outcome for people with psychosis. In this sense, there are cultural contexts that are based on explanatory models of mental illness that attribute a different amount of responsibility within the person for their condition (of suffering from mental illness) and also put a different amount of focus on the role of family as the main provider of care.