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In Chap. 2, Hooley succinctly summarizes the history of expressed emotion (EE) research and its principal findings to date. She reviews the considerable body of evidence which suggests that the EE index has predictive validity where relapse patterns in schizophrenia are concerned and refers to the content and concurrent validity studies which offer further proof that EE is conceptually sound. However, she also acknowledge the existence of unresolved questions and issues raised by the EE investigations. The intention of this chapter is to take up some of these questions and issues and explore them in the light of unpublished data from relatives’ interviews—rich sources of information concerning patterns of emotional response and family interaction in the months preceding a psychiatric admission. The material to be presented suggests some directions for further research and tentative guidelines for clinical interventions in the future.
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Vaughn, C.E. (1986). Patterns of Emotional Response in the Families of Schizophrenic Patients. In: Goldstein, M.J., Hand, I., Hahlweg, K. (eds) Treatment of Schizophrenia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95496-2_9
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