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Mueser, Kim T.; Pratt, Sarah I.; Bartels, Stephen J.; Swain, Karin; Forester, Brent; Cather, Corinne; Feldman, James – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2010
Objective: The Helping Older People Experience Success (HOPES) program was developed to improve psychosocial functioning and reduce long-term medical burden in older people with severe mental illness (SMI) living in the community. HOPES includes 1 year of intensive skills training and health management, followed by a 1-year maintenance phase.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Schizophrenia, Mental Disorders, Older Adults
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O'Hare, Thomas; Sherrer, Margaret V. – Social Work Research, 2009
Research is limited regarding the role of high-risk behaviors, trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in people with severe mental illnesses (SMI). The current survey of 276 community mental health clients diagnosed with either a schizophrenia spectrum disorder or a major mood disorder examined the mediating role of lifetime…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Schizophrenia, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Coping
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Green, Tamar; Gothelf, Doron; Glaser, Bronwyn; Debbane, Martin; Frisch, Amos; Kotler, Moshe; Weizman, Abraham; Eliez, Stephan – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009
Objective: Velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS) is associated with cognitive deficits and high rates of schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders. We report the data from two large cohorts of individuals with VCFS from Israel and Western Europe to characterize the neuropsychiatric phenotype from childhood to adulthood in a large sample.…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Schizophrenia, Intelligence Tests, Tests
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Bradizza, Clara M.; Maisto, Stephen A.; Vincent, Paula C.; Stasiewicz, Paul R.; Connors, Gerard J.; Mercer, Nicole D. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
Few investigators studying alcohol abuse among individuals with a severe mental illness (SMI) have examined predictors of posttreatment alcohol outcomes. In the present study, a multivariate approach based on a theoretical model was used to study the relationship between psychosocial factors and post-treatment-initiation alcohol use. Predictors of…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Schizophrenia, Mental Disorders, Academic Achievement
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Gothelf, Doron; Frisch, Amos; Michaelovsky, Elena; Weizman, Abraham; Shprintzen, Robert J. – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
Velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS), also known as DiGeorge, conotruncal anomaly face, and Cayler syndromes, is caused by a microdeletion in the long arm of Chromosome 22. We review the history of the syndrome from the first clinical reports almost half a century ago to the current intriguing molecular findings associating genes from the…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Mental Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Risk
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Mitchell, Karen J.; Johnson, Marcia K. – Psychological Bulletin, 2009
Focusing primarily on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this article reviews evidence regarding the roles of subregions of the medial temporal lobes, prefrontal cortex, posterior representational areas, and parietal cortex in source memory. In addition to evidence from standard episodic memory tasks assessing accuracy for neutral…
Descriptors: Semantics, Schizophrenia, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Prior Learning
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Lopez, Steven R.; Lara, Ma. Del Carmen; Kopelowicz, Alex; Solano, Susana; Foncerrada, Hector; Aguilera, Adrian – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
The authors developed and tested a 35-min psychoeducational program with the goal of increasing Spanish-speaking persons' literacy of psychosis. The program uses popular cultural icons derived from music, art, and videos, as well as a mnemonic device--La CLAve (The Clue)--to increase (a) knowledge of psychosis, (b) efficacy beliefs that one can…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Schizophrenia, Caregivers, Psychoeducational Methods
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Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany C.; Vanderwert, Ross E.; Degnan, Kathryn A.; Marshall, Peter J.; Perez-Edgar, Koraly; Chronis-Tuscano, Andrea; Pine, Daniel S.; Fox, Nathan A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2009
Background: Individual differences in specific components of attention contribute to behavioral reactivity and regulation. Children with the temperament of behavioral inhibition (BI) provide a good context for considering the manner in which certain components of attention shape behavior. Infants and children characterized as behaviorally…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Clinical Diagnosis, Inhibition, Adolescents
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Magana, Sandy; Ghosh, Subharati – Journal of Family Social Work, 2010
In this cross-sectional study, the authors examined similarities and differences in depressive symptoms and psychological well-being between Latina maternal caregivers of persons with autism (n = 29) and schizophrenia (n = 33). They also explored predictors of maternal outcomes and the relationship of co-residence to them. Regression analysis…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Mothers, Daughters, Schizophrenia
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Cicero, David C.; Kerns, John G.; McCarthy, Denis M. – Psychological Assessment, 2010
Aberrant salience is the unusual or incorrect assignment of salience, significance, or importance to otherwise innocuous stimuli and has been hypothesized to be important for psychosis and psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Despite the importance of this concept in psychosis research, no questionnaire measures are available to assess…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Validity, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
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Eack, Shaun M.; Newhill, Christina E. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2008
A survey of 118 MSW students was conducted to examine the relationship between social work students' knowledge about, contact with, and attitudes toward persons with schizophrenia. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that students' knowledge about and contact with persons with schizophrenia were significantly related to better attitudes…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Mental Disorders, Social Work, Graduate Students
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Luna, Beatriz; Velanova, Katerina; Geier, Charles F. – Brain and Cognition, 2008
Cognitive control of behavior continues to improve through adolescence in parallel with important brain maturational processes including synaptic pruning and myelination, which allow for efficient neuronal computations and the functional integration of widely distributed circuitries supporting top-down control of behavior. This is also a time when…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Schizophrenia, Psychopathology, Short Term Memory
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Walsh, Irene P. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2007
Small talk has received only limited attention related to its role in general clinical contexts. Interaction in the speech-language pathologist clinic provides a forum for exploring the role of small talk. Although its value is recognized in some speech-language pathologist contexts, little systematic analysis has been undertaken. This paper…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Communication Disorders, Speech Language Pathology, Speech Therapy
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Emmerson, Lindsay C.; Miller, Sarah L.; Blanchard, Jack J. – Behavior Modification, 2009
A community sample of 88 putative schizotypes (48 social anhedonics, 40 controls), aged 18 to 19 years, and their biological parents (42 mothers of social anhedonics, 37 mothers of controls; 24 fathers of social anhedonics, 20 fathers of controls) receive videotaped diagnostic evaluations that serve as the basis for ratings of behavioral signs of…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Mothers, Personality, Fathers
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Beeble, Marisa L.; Salem, Deborah A. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2009
This study explored an approach to studying recovery that is sensitive to the multiphase and contextual nature of the recovery process. The authors focused on the experience of recovery in a mutual-help group, Schizophrenics Anonymous (SA). Prior qualitative research conducted with SA revealed that SA participants experience four phases of…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Helping Relationship, Social Support Groups, Schizophrenia
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