title: Stress reduction in the social environment of schizophrenic patients.
abstract: Patients with schizophrenia are sensitive to short term social stressors in the form of life events, and the long term stress of living with high Expressed Emotion (EE) relatives. A number of family interventions have been evaluated in controlled trials. A comparison of successful and unsuccessful interventions indicates the optimal type of intervention for patients in high EE environments.
authors.affiliation: MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leff
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D004777:Environment; D005196:Family Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D012559:Schizophrenia; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology