Family Treatments of Schizophrenia: Background and State of the Art

Prognosis for schizophrenia in the third world: A reevaluation of cross-cultural research

“…Bland (1982: 58) invokes Waxier in a discussion of the effects of culture on the outcome of mental illness. Beels (1981) and Beels and McFarlane (1982) look at the influence of social support on the course of schizophrenia; the Sri Lanka data are cited in both articles. Beels (1981) and Beels and McFarlane (1982) look at the influence of social support on the course of schizophrenia; the Sri Lanka data are cited in both articles.…”

Causal Attributions and Parent‐Child Relationships in a Self‐Help Group for Families of the Mentally III1

“…The belief that schizophrenia is caused by a n organic disease also has a long history (Beels & McFarlane, 1982) and has been most recently re-stated by several biochemically oriented psychiatric researchers (Frazer & Winokur, 1977;Meltzer, 1979;Taylor, 1987;Torrey, 1983). This attribution will be referred to as the organic attribution.…”

Social Work with the Family of the Schizophrenic Patient

“…The theories, despite these weaknesses, have been nonetheless powerful in shaping the attitudes of social workers and other mental health professionals (Beels andMcFarlane 1982, Lewine 1982 (Lamb and Oliphant 1978) with the result that most social workers treated families with suspicion, and effectively ignored the needs of the patient's family. To the difficulties of coping with the illness in the family was added the insult of blame (Lewine 1982).…”