Intervention Group Counseling For Depression Emotional Expression Family

The purpose of this study is to investigate the way for depressed patients’ families to expressemotion and their family members’ ralated psychological states. Then discuss the effects of grouptherapy to improve the way of the depressed patients to express emotion and the ralatedpsychological states of their family members, as well as the different sides’ effects of the patients’prognosis and rehabitation. It has important theoretical and practical significance which wouldenrich the theory of family therapy depression.To know about the characteristics of such group, we investigate the expressed emotion statesof a pair of depressed patients’ families, as well as their and their families’ related psychologicalstates. We do the psychological test which includes CFI-CV, SCL-90, The Copying Style Scale,The Social Support Scale, SDSS,SDS and SAS.1. The different demographic variables (relatives with patients, family members’ genders,educational levels of city or countryside and family me, guardianship levels, family’s awareness ofdisease, apathy and emotional over-incorporation) in CFI-CV, and other four dimensions have nosignificant difference.2. The mental health level of depressed patients’ family members is significantly lower than thenational norm. From the social support, the male family members of each factor in degree ofsocial support and national norm have no significant difference. However, the scores of femalefamily members’ subjective support and support for use are both lower than the norm, and theyhave significant difference.3. The incomes and patients’ educational levels of high and low expressed emotion familymembers have significantly difference. High expressed emotion of family members’ metal healthlevel is significantly lower than the low. Their social support level is significantly lower than thefamily members who have low expressed emotion. In the Scale of Coping style, theproblem-solving factor and the help-searching factor are significantly lower than the expressedemotion group, while remorse factor is significantly higher than the low expressed emotion group.The second study has done an intervention experiment to the group therapy of depressedfamily’s expressed emotion way. And it study the intervention of expressed emotion style, themental health level of depressed patients’ family members, coping style, social support andrehabilitation of social function in patients and their related symptoms. We divide the families ofhigh expressed emotion into two groups. There are11people in the experimental group (grouptherapy intervention) as well as the control group(without any intervention). The experimentalgroup uses the group therapy intervention of family members’ expressed emotion once a week andit has been8weeks altogether. We have done the posttest during6months after the intervention. There are the results:4. The group therapy intervention of family members’ expressed emotion has significantlyimproved the family members’ mental health level. The positive response was significantlyenhanced and the negative response was significantly decreased. At the same time, partdimensions of CFI-CV are significantly improved. The effect has some long-term and persistent.5. The mental health level of the family without any intervention has a significant decrease aftersix months. And the part dimensions in CFI-CV have been worsen.6. Subjective analysis proved the family members which have the implement of group therapyintervention of family expressed emotion are improved in basic knowledge about depression,emotional manage, coping pressure, social support, family social interaction, self-exploration,thanksgiving and hope.The research results show that family Expressed Emotion is important for the family membermental health.The family emotional intervention group therapy is useful for family memberswhich is to improve psychological health of family members, but it is no significant effect on thepatients’ rehabilitation.It will be the direction of further study of the in the future.