Somaia Mohamed Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Schizophrenia; Subjective satisfaction; Caregiver
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
As an Associate Clinical Professor at Yale Department of psychiatry, I have been practicing psychotherapy for over 20 years. My therapeutic approach is to help individuals and couples better understand the conflicts in their life and find healthy ways to resolve or cope with them tapping into their strengths and their social support. In addition to my private practice, I have been working at the Department of Veterans Affairs for many years as a supervisory psychologist
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Author(s): Yinjia Zheng, Robert Rosenheck, Somaia Mohamed, Bin Sun, Yanling Zhou, Yuping Ning, Jian Long and Hongbo He
Objective: Although caregiver relationships are a recognized feature of recovery for people with schizophrenia, subjective satisfaction with individual family and non-family relationships has not been studied systematically nor have factors associated with greater relationship satisfaction been identified.
Methods: Eighty-four schizophrenic inpatients were assessed using the Family/Social Involvement Scale (FSIS) which identifies patients' satisfaction with their relationship with whom they had contact at least once in the year prior to hospitalization. General psychological distress was asses... view moreĀ»