title: Facial emotion recognition in psychiatrists and influences of their therapeutic identification on that ability.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Although emotional cues like facial emotion expressions seem to be important in social interaction, there is no specific training about emotional cues for psychiatrists. Here, we aimed to investigate psychiatrists' ability of facial emotion recognition and relation with their clinical identification as psychotherapy-psychopharmacology oriented or being adult and childhood-adolescent psychiatrist.
  
  
  METHODS
  Facial Emotion Recognition Test was performed to 130 psychiatrists that were constructed by a set of photographs (happy, sad, fearful, angry, surprised, disgusted and neutral faces) from Ekman and Friesen's.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Psychotherapy oriented adult psychiatrists were significantly better in recognizing sad facial emotion (p=.003) than psychopharmacologists while no significant differences were detected according to therapeutic orientation among child-adolescent psychiatrists (for each, p>.05). Adult psychiatrists were significantly better in recognizing fearful (p=.012) and disgusted (p=.003) facial emotions than child-adolescent psychiatrists while the latter were better in recognizing angry facial emotion (p=.008).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  For the first time, we have shown some differences on psychiatrists' facial emotion recognition ability according to therapeutic identification and being adult or child-adolescent psychiatrist. It would be valuable to investigate how these differences or training the ability of facial emotion recognition would affect the quality of patient-clinician interaction and treatment related outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Sisli Etfal Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mihriban
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dalkıran
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Medical School of Cerrahpasa, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: gozdee_gultekinn@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Gozde
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gultekin
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Psychiatry, Viransehir State Hospital, Sanlıurfa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Erhan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yuksek
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Konya Education and Research Hospital, Konya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Nalan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Varsak
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Psychiatry, Kahramanmaras State Hospital, Kahramanmaras, Turkey.
authors.forename: Hesna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gul
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Bakırkoy Mental Health and Neurological Diseases Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Zeliha
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kıncır
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Bakırkoy Mental Health and Neurological Diseases Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Akif
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tasdemir
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Medical School of Cerrahpasa, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Emul
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D000066499:Facial Recognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry