A brief method for assessing expressed emotion in relatives of psychiatric patients
- A. B. Magaña, M. Goldstein, M. Karno, D. Miklowitz, J. Jenkins, I. Falloon
- PsychologyPsychiatry Research
- 1 March 1986
Measuring trauma and health status in refugees: a critical review.
- M. Hollifield, T. Warner, J. Westermeyer
- Political Science, MedicineJAMA
- 7 August 2002
The majority of articles about refugee trauma or health are either descriptive or include quantitative data from instruments that have limited or untested validity and reliability in refugees, highlighting primary limitations to accurate measurement in refugee research.
Ethnicity, expressed emotion, attributions, and course of schizophrenia: family warmth matters.
- S. López, Kathleen Nelson Hipke, K. Snyder
- PsychologyJournal of Abnormal Psychology
- 1 August 2004
The authors found partial support for an attributional model of relapse for families who are low in emotional overinvolvement, and found that for Mexican Americans, family warmth is a significant protective factor, whereas for Anglo American, family criticism is asignificant risk factor.
The meaning of expressed emotion: theoretical issues raised by cross-cultural research.
- J. Jenkins, M. Karno
- PsychologyAmerican Journal of Psychiatry
- 1992
Anthropological analysis of expressed emotion reveals that although expressed emotion indexes a Pandora's box of diverse features, culture provides the context of variation through which these factors are most productively analyzed.
Research issues for improving treatment of U.S. Hispanics with persistent mental disorders.
An expert consensus meeting in August 2005 sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, which assembled 15 senior researchers with a background in treatment and services research with the Hispanic population, identified research issues most pertinent for improving quality and effectiveness of treatment for Hispanics experiencing persistent mental disorders.
Conceptions of schizophrenia as a problem of nerves: a cross-cultural comparison of Mexican-Americans and Anglo-Americans.
- J. Jenkins
- Psychology, MedicineSocial Science & Medicine ()
- 1988
Expressed Emotion and Schizophrenic Outcome among Mexican- American Families
- M. Karno, J. Jenkins, A. de la SELVA, C. Telles, S. López, J. Mintz
- PsychologyJournal of Nervous and Mental Disease
- 1 March 1987
The finding of a lower prevalence of high levels of expressed emotion among Mexican-American compared to Anglo-American and British households lends support to the hypothesis that intrafamilial behaviors may account for different schizophrenic outcomes in different cultures.
Adolescent Experience of Psychotropic Treatment
- J. Floersch, L. Townsend, R. Findling
- Psychology, MedicineTranscultural Psychiatry
- 1 March 2009
The exploratory findings of semi-structured and open-ended interviews carried out with 20 adolescents diagnosed with one or more psychiatric disorders, and who were currently prescribed psychiatric medications are reported.
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