Word: hooley
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...describing her work, Hooley said that very few researchers study the "psychosocial factors that affect the recovery and relapses of depressed and schitzophrenic patients... from a family perspective...
...factors is criticism," Hooley said. "Patients who return to critical families have a relapse rate four to five times greater than those whose families...
Maher said that Hooley's unique approach provides a method for indentifying the factors involved in patient recovery or relapse. Instead of working with patients who have a history of mental illness, as previous studies have done, she has interviewed patients and families soon after the patient enters the hospital for the first time...
Maher added that Hooley's investigations have direct bearing on public policy decisions involving those with mental illness...
...Hooley's published work includes the book, Readings in Abnormal Psychology, which she co-edited with J.M. Neale and G.C. Davison. She is also consulting editor for the Journal of Abnormal Psychology and associate editor for Psychopathology Research...