Supportive psycho-educational intervention for schizophrenics' families: influencing family dynamics.
I conducted supportive psycho-educational intervention for the families of schizophrenics, mainly to the mothers, and investigated the influence on the patients' mode of treatment and their symptoms 9 months later. In accordance with Motooka, the mothers were classified into the three categories of narcissistic type, symbiotic type and dependent type. The influence of the interventions varied with the difference in types. Only the patients whose mothers belong to the dependent type showed a significant improvement 9 months after the interventions. From these results I consider that the narcissistic type cases need to be given psychotherapeutic family intervention from the early stage of treatment, while symbiotic type cases need supportive psycho-educational intervention in the presence of both parents and dependent type cases merit supportive psycho-educational interventions to the mothers.
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Department of Psychiatry, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Japan.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009289:Narcissism; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology