The role of depression, shame-proneness, and guilt-proneness in predicting criticism of relatives towards people with bipolar disorder.

Expressed emotion (EE) has been associated with poor patient outcomes in many different psychiatric disorders. Given its robust association with relapse, EE has become a major target of family psychoeducational interventions. Most psychoeducational interventions to date have failed to change EE levels among families of those with bipolar disorder.

Dispositional Rumination in Individuals with a Depression History.

Many studies show that rumination is related to current depressive episodes but very few studies have examined whether rumination is elevated among those with a history of diagnosed depression. The goal of the current study was to examine whether a history of diagnosable major depressive disorder (MDD) is related to rumination among undergraduates. In addition, individual difference variables (i.

A clinical monitoring form for mood disorders.

Objective: The Clinical Monitoring Form (CMF) for mood disorders was developed as a time efficient record keeping tool for routine clinical use. This report presents preliminary data evaluating the correlation between the CMF's dimensional subscales for depression and mood elevation and formal mood rating scales across a wide spectrum of mood states.

Methods: To harvest data for 500 follow-up visits required collection of data from consecutive records accumulated during the conduct of seven double blind clinical trials involving a total of 58 participants.