Date of Award

Spring 6-13-2025

Document Type

Doctoral Research Paper

Degree Name

Psy.D.

Organizational Unit

Graduate School of Professional Psychology

First Advisor

Judith E. Fox

Second Advisor

Noelle L. Lefforge

Third Advisor

Daniel I. Hettleman

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords

Schizophrenia, Severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI), Caregivers, Connection

Abstract

The purpose of this doctoral project is to bring together existing literature on relational barriers between patients and caregivers, and strategies for overcoming them, for one reason: to help clinicians facilitate connection within families and households where one person has schizophrenia. It is therefore comprised of two parts: this paper containing a three-part literature review on barriers to connection including social skill deficits characteristic of the disease of schizophrenia, environmental factors, and caregiver burden and expressed emotion within families, as well as protective factors and strategies for overcoming them. The second component of this project is a psychoeducational module geared towards clinicians working with caregivers, which may also be of use to patients and caregivers. The module summarizes the content of this literature review in a video format, making it digestible to a wider audience. The module can be found here: https://youtu.be/VKp1jAKb2-8.

Copyright Date

5-23-2025

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Rights Holder

Sarah G. Fernandez

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

46 pgs

File Size

337 KB

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