Patient Therapeutic Education (FTE) is defined as a practice to help patients to acquire or maintain the skills needed to best manage their lives with a chronic disease. FTE includes organized awareness, information, learning and psychological and social assistance about the disease, prescribed treatments, various treatments offered, as well as information on organization of the global health system, and health behaviours. Performed by health professionals trained in this practice, FTE is intended to help patients and their close relatives and to understand their pathology, their treatments, collaborate with health care teams, and maintain or improve their quality of life. It aims to produce a complementary therapeutic effect of other health care interventions
People with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder display alterations in cognition and metacognition. These alterations may have an impact on learning during therapeutic education programs.