Expressed Emotion in Schizophrenia: An Overview

An Overview of Expressed Emotion

Purpose of This Review The intent of this piece is to gather together essential elements of Expressed Emotion (EE) — as preparation for articles expanding our knowledge of the emotional effects of family life — good and bad. I used an earlier version to prepare my editorial for Military Medicine, “Family’s Expressed Emotion to Returning Citizen Soldiers” (Rabstejnek, 2008). An impressive featur...

Communication Deviance, Expressed Emotion, and Family Cohesion in Schizophrenia

Expressed emotion and family interactions in Mexican Americans with schizophrenia.

Patients with schizophrenia who are exposed to family environments high in expressed emotion (EE) are at increased risk of relapse. EE is usually measured by an interview with one family member and does not include a direct assessment of family interaction. To understand better the key processes that underlie the relationship between EE and course of illness, we applied a well-validated measure...

Expressed emotion and sociocultural moderation in the course of schizophrenia.

This study examined whether the sociocultural context moderates the relationship between families' expressed emotion (EE) and clinical outcomes in schizophrenia. In a sample of 60 Mexican American caregivers and their ill relatives, we first assessed whether EE and its indices (criticism, emotional overinvolvement [EOI], and warmth) related to relapse. Second, we extended the analysis of EE and...

Tracing Emotion: An Overview

Computational research with continuous representations depends on obtaining continuous representations from human labellers. The main method used for that purpose is tracing. Tracing raises a range of challenging issues, both psychological and statistical. Naive assumptions about these issues are easy to make, and can lead to inappropriate requirements and uses. The natural function of traces i...