What is it about?
Hostility and cynicism expressed by family members in their interactions with one another interact with the meta-cognitive beliefs in members to make them prone to hallucination like experiences.
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Why is it important?
Findings of this study reveal that efforts aimed at preventing psychotic like experiences should target communicative patterns within the family as well as the meta-cognitive beliefs of individuals.
Perspectives
Just as training in relaxation, yoga or mindfulness equip individuals with skills that enable them to cope with stresses of life in general, training in emotion regulation and awareness of meta-cognitions can equip individuals with skills that will contribute to enjoying a healthy mental life.
Dr. Usha Barahmand
City University of New York System
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This page is a summary of: Expressed Emotion and Hallucination Proneness: The Mediating Role of Metacognitive Beliefs, International Journal of Life Sciences, February 2016, Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL),
DOI: 10.3126/ijls.v10i1.14516.
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