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Research update on the psychosocial treatment of schizophrenia
David L. Penn,Kim T. Mueser +1 more
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The efficacy of a variety of different family intervention models, as well as social skills training, is supported by a large body of research.Abstract:
Objective This review is an update on the research evidence supporting psychosocial treatment for schizophrenia. It extends previous review articles by summarizing the literature on social skills training, family interventions, cognitive rehabilitation, and coping with residual positive symptoms. Meread more
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Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for the management of schizophrenia and related disorders
Cherrie Galletly,David J. Castle,Frances Dark,Verity Humberstone,Assen Jablensky,Eoin Killackey,Jayashri Kulkarni,Patrick D. McGorry,Olav Nielssen,Nga Tran +9 more
TL;DR: This guideline takes a holistic approach, addressing all aspects of the care of people with schizophrenia and related disorders, not only correct diagnosis and symptom relief but also optimal recovery of social function, and uses a clinical staging model as a framework for recommendations regarding assessment, treatment and ongoing care.
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Social cognition in schizophrenia
TL;DR: The authors describe social cognition and differentiate it from nonsocial cognition and describe the potential implications of a social-cognitive model of schizophrenia for the etiology and development of the disorder.
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The Effect of Family Interventions on Relapse and Rehospitalization in Schizophrenia—A Meta-analysis
TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis was conducted regarding the effect of including relatives in schizophrenia treatment and the main result was that the relapse rate can be reduced by 20 percent if relatives of schizophrenia patients are included in the treatment.
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Empirically Supported Couple and Family Interventions for Marital Distress and Adult Mental Health Problems
TL;DR: This article evaluates the efficacy, effectiveness, and clinical significance of empirically supported couple and family interventions for treating marital distress and individual adult disorders, including anxiety disorders, depression, sexual dysfunctions, alcoholism and problem drinking, and schizophrenia.
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A randomized study of family-focused psychoeducation and pharmacotherapy in the outpatient management of bipolar disorder.
David J. Miklowitz,Elizabeth L. George,Jeffrey A. Richards,Teresa L. Simoneau,Richard L. Suddath +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, a randomized controlled trial was performed to determine whether combining family-focused therapy (FFT) with pharmacotherapy during a post-episode interval enhances patients' mood stability during maintenance treatment.
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Family psychoeducation, social skills training, and maintenance chemotherapy in the aftercare treatment of schizophrenia. I. One-year effects of a controlled study on relapse and expressed emotion.
Gerard E. Hogarty,Carol M. Anderson,Douglas J. Reiss,Sander J. Kornblith,Deborah P. Greenwald,Carol D. Javna,Michael J. Madonia +6 more
TL;DR: Two disorder-relevant treatments were developed: a patient-centered behavioral treatment and a psychoeducational family treatment among schizophrenic patients receiving maintenance neuroleptic treatment.
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A controlled trial of social intervention in the families of schizophrenic patients.
TL;DR: The results provide evidence for the causal role of relatives' expressed emotion (EE) in schizophrenic relapse, as well as for the therapeutic effectiveness of social intervention combined with drug treatment.
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Family management in the prevention of exacerbations of schizophrenia: a controlled study.
Ian R. H. Falloon,Jeff Boyd,Christine W. McGill,Javad Razani,Howard B. Moss,Alexander M. Gilderman +5 more
TL;DR: Significantly lower levels of schizophrenic symptomatology on blind rating-scale assessments supported clinical observations of the superiority of family management, and the family-treatment approach sought to enhance the stress-reducing capacity of the patient and his or her family.
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Family management in the prevention of morbidity of schizophrenia: Clinical outcome of a two-year longitudinal study.
Ian R. H. Falloon,Jeffery L. Boyd,Christine W. McGill,Malcolm Williamson,Javad Razani,Howard B. Moss,Alexander M. Gilderman,George M. Simpson +7 more
TL;DR: The relative efficacy of the family approach did not appear to be due to prognostic factors, rater bias, stressful life events, or the effectiveness of pharmacotherapy, and Definitive tests of these findings with respect to efficacy require further well-designed studies.
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The self, attributional processes and abnormal beliefs: towards a model of persecutory delusions.
TL;DR: An integrative model is proposed to account for findings that it is hypothesized that, in deluded patients, activation of self/ideal discrepancies by threat-related information triggers defensive explanatory biases, which have the function of reducing the self/Ideal discrepancies but result in persecutory ideation.