Treatment of Schizophrenia

Family Assessment and Intervention
Ed. by Goldstein, Michael J.; Hand, Iver; Hahlweg, Kurt

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Produktbeschreibung

A group of people are seated together in a tried to explain it to you, you wouldn't un room. Recently, they have shared two derstand,' and this went on and on in a big circle, nowhere, - no information at all!" important experiences - they have lived The feelings of these relatives are not with a close relative, usually an offspring or spouse, who has been through an episode unique. Until recently, many relatives of of a major mental disorder, most often of a schizophrenic patients experienced some schizophrenic type, and they have also been form of rebuff by mental health profes participants in an experimental program sionals while their relative was treated as an designed to assist them and their disturbed inpatient and little or no involvement in the relative in modifying family patterns to aftercare process when the relative re foster rehabilitation. The experimental turned home. These attitudes of mental programs involve maintenance pharmaco health personnel reflected both the prevail therapy as well as a combination of family ing wisdom of the time that the family, be education and therapy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-16628-3
• 1986.
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1986
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9783540166283
• ISBN-10: 3540166289
• Artikelnr.: 25183472

Autorenporträt

Prof. Dr. Iver Hand ist ärztlicher Leiter des Arbeitsbereichs Verhaltenstherapie am Universitätsklinikum Eppendorf in Hamburg. Forschungsschwerpunkt: Verhaltenstherapie (Dozent und Supervisor an Ausbildungsinstituten), Angst und Panikstörungen (neurobiologische und physiologische Grundlagen).

Inhaltsangabe

Treatment of Schizophrenia: Historical Aspects.- A. Prediction of the Course of Schizophrenia.- I. Patient Attributes.- 1. Outcome and Prediction of Outcome in Schizophrenia: Results from the Literature and from Two Personal Studies.- II. Family Attributes.- 2. An Introduction to EE Measurement and Research.- 3. Expressed Emotion in Cross-Cultural Context: Familial Respones to Schizophrenic Illness Among Mexican Americans.- 4. Do Relatives Express Expressed Emotion?.- 5. Short-Term Relapse in Young Schizophrenics: Can It Be Predicted and Affected by Family (CFI), Patient, and Treatment Variables? An Experimental Study.- 6. Emotional Atmosphere in Families of Schizophrenic Outpatients: Relevance of a Practice-Oriented Assessment Instrument.- 7. The Marriages and Interaction Patterns of Depressed Patients and Their Spouses: Comparison of High and Low EE Dyads.- 8. Patterns of Emotional Response in the Families of Schizophrenic Patients.- B. Modification of the Course of Schizophrenia by Family Interventions.- 9. Working with Families of Acute Psychotics: Problems for Research and Reconsideration.- 10. Family Education as a Component of Extended Family-Oriented Treatment Programs for Schizophrenia.- 11. Pilot Study of the Impact of a Family Education Program on Relatives of Recent-Onset Schizophrenic Patients.- 12. Psychoeducational Family Therapy.- 13. Controlled Trial of Social Intervention in the Families of Schizophrenic Patients.- 14. Behavioral Family Therapy for Schizophrenia: Clinical, Social, Family, and Economic Benefits.- 15. The Impact of Family Intervention Programs on Family Communication and the Short-Term Course of Schizophrenia.- 16. The Psychosocial Program of Treatment of Schizophrenic Patients in the Crakow Psychiatric Clinic.- Epilogue.- 17. Coping andCompetence as Protective Factors in the Vulnerability-Stress Model of Schizophrenia.