Expressed Emotion: A Call for Partnership Among Relatives, Patients, and Professionals

Expressed emotion of professionals towards mental health patients.

In rehabilitation programmes of clients with severe mental illnesses, professional caregivers have a crucial role, their main tasks being to provide and co-ordinate the needed care and to help the patients to come to terms with their illness. However, it is not always easy to be a good counsellor for these clients. Although professional caregivers have their professional backgrounds to rely on,...

The partnership with patients: a call to action for leaders.

On June 16, 2011, leaders of many of our greatest health care membership organizations were assembled inWashington, DC, for the Partnership for Patients kickoff meeting. What was different was that a pleasant woman at the back of the room was quietly brushing strokes onto a beautiful painting that evolved while speakers delivered their messages. No one realized she was a focal point of the meet...

An acceptance-based psychoeducation intervention to reduce expressed emotion in relatives of bipolar patients.

Expressed emotion (EE) is a robust predictor of outcome in bipolar disorder. Despite decades of research, interventions to reduce EE levels have had only modest effects. This study used an expanded model of EE to develop an intervention. Research has demonstrated a strong link between attributions and EE in families of patients with psychiatric disorders. There is also substantial research to s...

The Spanish validation of level of expressed emotion scale for relatives of people with eating disorders.

Expressed emotion (EE) is considered a general predictor of poor outcome across a range of conditions, including eating disorders, and is valuable in measuring the effect of family interventions. There are no self-report questionnaires validated in Spanish to measure EE among relatives of patients with a psychiatric condition. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of ...

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