Delivering Cognitive‐Behavioural Family Interventions for Schizophrenia

Need for Family Interventions in Schizophrenia

In the last five decades the relationship between the family and schizophrenia has been an area of intense research. Initially the family was supposed to be having a causal role, but later due to the poor empirical evidence supporting this hypothesis the thinking changed. Research on expressed emotions (EE) showed with considerable empirical data, the role of family attitudes & interactions upo...

Family Interventions for Schizophrenia and the Psychoses: A Review.

Family psychoeducation as a treatment for schizophrenia was developed 40 years ago almost simultaneously and independently by investigators who at the time were not family therapists. Although the original goal was to decrease high expressed emotion as a means of preventing relapse, later variations have gone beyond to focus on social and role functioning and family well-being. Explicitly disav...

Some aspects of family interventions in schizophrenia. II: Financial considerations.

The direct costs to the mental health services for patients who participated in a trial of a behavioural family intervention to reduce schizophrenic relapse were estimated. Comparisons were made between two patient groups from households of high expressed emotion (HEE): one group received a nine-month family intervention (HEE Intervention) and the other group routine treatment (HEE Control). A ...

Delivering telemedicine interventions in chronic respiratory disease.

Effectiveness of mutual support and psychoeducation group interventions for family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia

1. A client-led mutual support group for Chinese family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia is more effective and less costly to improve psychosocial functioning of families and patients’ functioning than family psychoeducation group and standard care, over a 1-year follow-up. 2. Mutual support can effectively improve family care of Chinese patients with schizophrenia in Hong Kong without...