Distress, Expressed Emotion, and Attributions in Relatives of Schizophrenia Patients

Ethnicity, expressed emotion, attributions, and course of schizophrenia: family warmth matters.

The authors examined the role of family factors and the course of schizophrenia by carrying out additional assessments and analyses in 2 previously published studies of Mexican American and Anglo American patients and families. The authors found partial support for an attributional model of relapse for families who are low in emotional overinvolvement. Attributions of control, criticism, and wa...

Acceptance and expressed emotion in Mexican American caregivers of relatives with schizophrenia.

The relation between Expressed Emotion (EE) and caregiver acceptance was tested with the use of video-recorded interactions between 31 Mexican American family caregivers and their relatives with schizophrenia. Borrowing the concept from Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, acceptance was defined as caregiver's engagement with the ill relative along with low levels of expectations for behavior...

Nonreligious Coping, Religious Coping, and Self-conscious Emotions as Predictors of Expressed Emotion in Relatives of Patients with Schizophrenia

The impact of education about schizophrenia on relatives varying in expressed emotion.

The demand for information by relatives and the success of family intervention programs with an initial didactic component has resulted in a proliferation of educational interventions in schizophrenia. The present study assesses the impact of a single educational session on relatives of recent-onset schizophrenic patients. Results suggest that relatives who participated in family education expe...

Emotion processing and theory of mind in schizophrenia patients and their unaffected first-degree relatives.

Previous studies have suggested that social cognition is affected in individuals with schizophrenia. The purpose of this study was to explore to what extent social cognition deficits are shared by unaffected first-degree relatives, and the nature of the relationship between performance in different paradigms of social cognition. 20 Schizophrenia patients (7 females, 31+/-10 years), 20 healthy a...