Expressed Emotion and Relapse in Schizophrenia

Expressed emotion, human agency, and schizophrenia: toward a new model for the EE-relapse association.

Although there is a clear statistical association between expressed emotion (EE) and schizophrenic relapse, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this relationship is underdeveloped. This study tested a theoretical model in which caregivers' perceptions of their ill relative's agency underlie the EE-relapse association. To evaluate this model, we completed qualitative and quantitative ...

the role of family expressed emotion and perceived social support in predicting addiction relapse

background emotional conditions governing the family and patients’ perceived social support play important roles in the treatment or relapse process of the chronic disease. objectives the current study aimed to investigate the role of family expressed emotion and perceived social support in prediction of addiction relapse. patients and methods the descriptive-correlation method was used in the ...

Expressed Emotion and Relapse of Alcohol Use Disorder

Expressed emotion (EE) is especially relevant in the Indian cultural context, where patients have longer and more enduring contact with family members, who play an important role as caregivers during the process of treatment & rehabilitation. A cross sectional case control study was carried out to study the relationship between EE and relapse of alcohol use. Participants included 60 participant...

Expressed emotion and psychiatric relapse: a meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND Expressed emotion (EE) is a measure of the family environment that has been demonstrated to be a reliable psychosocial predictor of relapse in schizophrenia. However, in recent years some prominent nonreplications of the EE-relapse relationship have been published. To more fully address the question of the predictive validity of EE, we conducted a meta-analysis of all available EE an...

Communication Deviance, Expressed Emotion, and Family Cohesion in Schizophrenia