Validity
Some studies show that there is no link between expressed emotion and first episode psychosis and illness severity, age of onset, and illness length.
There is also literature that links EE to the course and outcome of numerous major childhood psychiatric disorders. One study showed that one component, high parental dimensions of criticism (CRIT), can be used as an index of problematic parent–child interactions, and emotional overinvolvement (EOI) was not a useful indicator of problems.
The article "Expressed Emotion and Relapse of Psychopathology" details expressed emotion (EE) as a construct, the link between expressed emotion and relapse, evidence of causality, attributions and EE, and more information regarding the theory of EE.
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