Multiple-family group treatment for English- and Vietnamese-speaking families living with schizophrenia

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 521-530

  Bradley, Gail M ^a   Couchman, Grace M ^a,b   Perlesz, Amaryll ^b   Nguyen, Anh Thu ^a   Singh, Bruce ^c   Riess, Colin ^b  

^a Inner West Area Mental Health Service   (Austria)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FAMILY BURDEN SCALE; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUP THERAPY; HEALTH OF THE NATION OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE SCALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; RELAPSE; SCALE FOR ASSESSMENT OF NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMPTOM; VIETNAMESE; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

EID: 33645687393     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2006.57.4.521     Document Type: Article

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