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Patterns of Expressed Emotion and Patient Coping Styles that Characterise the Families of Recent Onset Schizophrenics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Michael J. Goldstein
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology
David J. Miklowitz
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology
Angus M. Strachan
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology
Jeri A. Doane
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University
Keith H. Nuechterlein
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of California Los Angeles
Dorothy Feingold
Affiliation:
Washington State University

Extract

A number of recent studies (Leff & Vaughn, 1985; Nuechterlein et al, 1986; Jenkins et al, 1986; Mintz et al, 1987) have indicated that attitudes of family members towards a relative with schizophrenia (termed High Epressed Emotion (EE)), are predictive of the short-term course of the patient's disorder. The measure used to define EE status of a relative is a semi-structured interview, the Camberwell Family Interview (CFI) (Vaughn & Leff, 1976), which is usually administered shortly after the patient is admitted to hospital for an index episode of the disorder.

Type
IV. From the Perspective of Person-Environment Relationships
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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