Bipolar disorder and family communication: effects of a psychoeducational treatment program.
Bipolar disorder and family communication: effects of a psychoeducational treatment program.
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双相情感障碍和家庭沟通:心理教育治疗计划的影响。
DOI:
10.1037//0021-843x.108.4.588
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
George,EL
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作者:
Simoneau,TL;Miklowitz,DJ;Richards,JA;Saleem,R;George,EL
Family psychoeducational programs are efficacious adjuncts to pharmacotherapy for patients with schizophrenic and bipolar disorders, but little is known about what these programs change about families. The authors assessed changes in face-to-face interactional behavior over 1 year among families of bipolar patients who received a 9-month family-focused psychoeducational therapy (FFT; n= 22) or crisis management with naturalistic follow-up (CMNF; n= 22), both administered with maintenance pharmacotherapy. Members of families who received FFT showed more positive nonverbal interactional behavior during a 1-year posttreatment problem-solving assessment than families who received CMNF, although no corresponding decreases were seen in negative interactional behaviors. The positive effect of family treatment on patients' symptom trajectories over 1 year was partially mediated by increases in patients' positive nonverbal interactional behaviors during this same interval.