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What Works in Work with Relatives? – A Hypothesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Heinz Katschnig  and
Teresa Konieczna
Heinz Katschnig
Affiliation:
Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Wien
Teresa Konieczna
Affiliation:
Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Sozialpsychiatrie, Wien
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In the past, psychiatry has paid little attention to the relatives of the mentally ill, but this attitude has changed gradually since the 1950s, when increasing numbers of patients began to be discharged from psychiatric hospitals through the introduction of neuroleptics and other changes. Especially for schizophrenic patients, with the low age of onset of the disorder, this development has meant that in many cases, the burden of care fell on their families, and as a consequence of this development, relatives have gradually become an important factor in care (Katschnig & Konieczna, 1987a). This field of involvement of relatives continues to expand, but is becoming increasingly confusing and complex. Our task here is an attempt to offer a structure within which to understand the manifold relative-centred activities that exist today.

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V. From the Perspective of Self-help and Work with Relatives
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue S5: Schizophrenia as a Systems Disorder: The Relevance of Mediating Processes for Theory and Therapy , July 1989 , pp. 144 - 150
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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