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Social skills and social and nonsocial cognitive functioning in schizophrenia
- Author:
- IKEBUCHI Emi
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 16(5), October 2007, pp.581-594.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Persons with schizophrenia show deficits across a broad range of social domains, and their social skill deficits are thought, to some extent, to be caused by cognitive dysfunction. The author conducted a review and concluded that both nonsocial and social cognition were strongly related to social skills in schizophrenia. However the relationship between social and nonsocial cognition and the pathways to social skills remain unclear. In this study, the author attempted to investigate how nonsocial and social cognitive functioning and psychiatric symptoms determine social skills in persons with schizophrenia. Sixty-four subjects who met the ICD-10 criteria for schizophrenia were evaluated with a semi-structured role-play test, BPRS, and a psychological test battery for attention, verbal fluency, and executive functioning. The ability to recognize the goal of the situation was partly determined by attention and social cognition independently. The processing of problem-solving and planning alternative behaviours was partly determined by the ability to recognize the goal, disorganization symptoms, and verbal fluency. The ability to send one's intention and emotion to others effectively was partly determined by processing skill, negative and disorganization symptoms, executive functioning, and verbal fluency. The structural equations model results revealed that the proposed model fitted the sample data well. The model proposed demonstrated that the cognitive chain constructs mediated the relationship between social input and behavioural output, and both social and non-social cognitive functioning directly influenced some step of the cognitive chain constructs.
Communicating effectively with psychotic patients
- Author:
- JOHNSTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 20.9.01, 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that nurses need to develop a feel for the hidden meaning of words if they are to have constructive conversations with people whose talk is often dismissed.
Dissemination and adoption of social skills training: social validation of an evidence-based treatment for the mentally disabled
- Author:
- LIBERMAN Robert Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 16(5), October 2007, pp.595-623.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The UCLA modules for training social and independent living skills (SILS) were developed to teach persons with severe mental illness skills for disease management, affiliative relationships, and instrumental role functioning. Eight modules have been produced and evaluated in controlled studies. The aim was to review the adoption of the modules by practitioners, and identify procedures for dissemination. Practitioner and program experiences with the modules were inventoried to identify factors associated with adoption and utility. Secondary dissemination was evaluated in agencies that disseminated the modules beyond their own patients by training other professionals. Determination was made of cultural adaptation of modules for use in various countries. The SILS modules have been widely implemented throughout the US, translated into 23 languages, and implemented in more than 30 countries. International studies document their cross-cultural efficacy, effectiveness, and utility. Factors associated with successful adoption included the modules' user-friendliness, preparation and interpersonal strategies with the adopting agencies, and follow-up consultation. International adoption and empirical evaluation of the SILS modules have established their external, social, and professional validity. Widespread utilization of the modules was facilitated by their utility in meeting the functional needs of patients participating in a range of existing clinical programs.
The open dialogue approach to acute psychosis: its poetics and micropolitics
- Authors:
- SEIKKULA Jaakko, OLSON Mary E.
- Journal article citation:
- Family Process, 42(3), 2003, pp.403-418.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a network-based, language approach to psychiatric care, Open Dialogue, which has emerged in Finland. The approach includes two levels of analysis, the poetics and the micropolitics. The poetics include three principles: tolerance of uncertainty, dialogism, and polyphony in social networks. A treatment meeting shows how these poetics operate to generate a therapeutic dialogue. The micropolitics are the larger institutional practices that support this way of working and are part of Finnish Need-Adapted Treatment. Recent research suggests that Open Dialogue has improved outcomes for young people in a variety of acute, severe psychiatric crises, such as psychosis, as compared to treatment-as-usual settings.
Mind's yellow card for reporting drug side effects: a report of users' experiences
- Authors:
- COBB Alison, DARTON Katherine, JUTTLA Kiran
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mind's yellow card scheme is based on the official scheme used by doctors to report adverse drug reactions to the Medicines Control Agency. Mind's own scheme is for people taking psychiatric drugs rather than health professionals. It invites people to report side effects and other aspects of their treatment.
Song sung blue
- Author:
- GILLAM Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 6.10.99, 1999, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article looks at how a music project for people with mental health problems has gone from strength to strength. The project aims to: encourage interpersonal communication; learn to explore and express feelings and moods through music; promote spontaneity, creativity and playfulness as a means of relaxation, recreation and problem-solving.
Communication and the mentally ill patient: developmental and linguistic approaches to schizophrenia
- Editors:
- FRANCE Jenny, MUIR Niki
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 195p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines issues of communication and speech in patients with schizophrenia. Contains contributions from psychiatrists, linguists, psychologists and speech and language therapists. Demonstrates the central role that communication and language play in the diagnosis and rehabilitation of people with mental health problems and highlights the need for greater interagency cooperation.
Disintegration of the components of language as the path to a revision of Bleuler's and Schneider's concepts of schizophrenia: linguistic disturbances compared with first-rank symptoms in acute psychosis
- Authors:
- CECCHERINI-NELLI Alfonso, CROW Timothy J.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 182(3), March 2003, pp.233-240.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The 20th century ended without a resolution of the debate about the supremacy of Schneider's psychopathological conceptualisation of schizophrenia (the first-rank symptoms) over Bleuler's 'four As' (disorders of association and affect, ambivalence and autism). The authors assessed language disturbances and first-rank symptoms with the Clinical Language Disorder Rating Scale (CLANG) in 30 consecutive patients with acute psychosis, selected for the presence of at least one active first-rank symptom, and 15 control participants with depression but no psychotic symptoms. Strong positive correlations were found between the CLANG factor 'poverty' (of speech) and first-rank delusions of control and ('delusional perceptions') between semantic/phonemic paraphasias and verbal auditory hallucinations. Language disturbances were superior to nuclear symptoms in discriminating ICD-10 schizophrenia from other psychoses.
Communication and mental illness: theoretical and practical approaches
- Editors:
- FRANCE Jenny, KRAMER Sarah
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 478p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aims to help professionals to understand the important role that communication plays in mental health and apply that knowledge in a variety of mental health settings. The first part of the book provides theoretical background to the methods of communication adopted by people with a range of diagnoses of mental illness. It also makes practical suggestions as to how this information can improve the professional's management of patients. Part Two looks at how information about communication in mental illness can influence service provision, with suggestions for future policy and practice. Concludes with a section describing the state of current research.