Predicting expressed emotion: a study with families of obsessive-compulsive and agoraphobic outpatients

Article Abstract:

This article examines the relatives of outpatients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder and agoraphobia and their expressed emotion. Employing a structural equation model the authors maintain they found the relatives demonstrating hostility toward the outpatient, as well as low rates of problem-solving ability.

United States, Social aspects, Mentally ill persons, Measurement, Mentally ill, Family, Problem solving, Hostility (Psychology), Hostility

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Measuring expressed emotion: An evaluation of the shortcuts

Article Abstract:

The Camberwell Family Interview (CFI), the conventionally accepted method of assessing expressed emotion (EE) is described, also discussing some drawbacks in the approach. Alternate ways of assessing EE, a reliable predictor of poor clinical outcomes in patients with major psychopathology, are proposed, evaluating the predictive validity of these measures and providing recommendations in using these assessments.

Methods, Interviewing in psychiatry, Psychiatric interviewing

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The structure of expressed emotion: a three-construct representation

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Expressed emotion (EE) can be used to predict whether schizophrenia patients released from hospital will relapse, and has applications in other areas such as depression and anxiety. A sample of 104 patients with 104 of their relatives was studied using confirmatory factor analysis to examine a model of EE using 3 factors, Emotional Overinvolvement, Positivity and Criticism. The patients suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder or agoraphobia. The Camberwell Family Interview and other measures were used. There was a strong negative correlation between Positivity and Criticism, and there was little relationship between Emotional Overinvolvement and the other factors.

Research, Psychotherapy patients

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