Treatment of Schizophrenia

Treatment of Schizophrenia: Historical Aspects.- A. Prediction of the Course of Schizophrenia.- I. Patient Attributes.- 1. Outcome and Prediction of Outcome in Schizophrenia: Results from the Literature and from Two Personal Studies.- II. Family Attributes.- 2. An Introduction to EE Measurement and Research.- 3. Expressed Emotion in Cross-Cultural Context: Familial Respones to Schizophrenic Illness Among Mexican Americans.- 4. Do Relatives Express Expressed Emotion?.- 5. Short-Term Relapse in Young Schizophrenics: Can It Be Predicted and Affected by Family (CFI), Patient, and Treatment Variables? An Experimental Study.- Comment on Chapter 5 (C. Vaughn).- 6. Emotional Atmosphere in Families of Schizophrenic Outpatients: Relevance of a Practice-Oriented Assessment Instrument.- 7. The Marriages and Interaction Patterns of Depressed Patients and Their Spouses: Comparison of High and Low EE Dyads.- 8. Patterns of Emotional Response in the Families of Schizophrenic Patients.- B. Modification of the Course of Schizophrenia by Family Interventions.- 9. Working with Families of Acute Psychotics: Problems for Research and Reconsideration.- 10. Family Education as a Component of Extended Family-Oriented Treatment Programs for Schizophrenia.- 11. Pilot Study of the Impact of a Family Education Program on Relatives of Recent-Onset Schizophrenic Patients.- 12. Psychoeducational Family Therapy.- 13. Controlled Trial of Social Intervention in the Families of Schizophrenic Patients.- 14. Behavioral Family Therapy for Schizophrenia: Clinical, Social, Family, and Economic Benefits.- 15. The Impact of Family Intervention Programs on Family Communication and the Short-Term Course of Schizophrenia.- 16. The Psychosocial Program of Treatment of Schizophrenic Patients in the Crakow Psychiatric Clinic.- Epilogue.- 17. Coping and Competence as Protective Factors in the Vulnerability-Stress Model of Schizophrenia.

Prof. Dr. Iver Hand ist ärztlicher Leiter des Arbeitsbereichs Verhaltenstherapie am Universitätsklinikum Eppendorf in Hamburg. Forschungsschwerpunkt: Verhaltenstherapie (Dozent und Supervisor an Ausbildungsinstituten), Angst und Panikstörungen (neurobiologische und physiologische Grundlagen).