The design and effectiveness of the training program on the facial emotion recognition of patients with schizophrenia

• Main Authors: Jhih-Cyun Wang, 王志群
• Other Authors: Wei-Siang Tan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89846417712242260133

碩士 === 中原大學 === 心理學研究所 === 94 === Abstract Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder. Patients with schizophrenia have more negative symptoms, more cognitive deficits, poorer social function, and more relapses while their course of disease extends. In order to help schizophrenic patients return to their community and increase their psychosocial function, the author would like to study the effectiveness of the neurocognitive training program on the facial emotion recognition of patients with schizophrenia. With the deficit in the information processing on facial emotion perception of schizophrenic patients, the neurocognitive training program is based mainly on the Memory Processing Model, Treisman’s Attenuation Model, signs of the eye movement, Ellis’s Information Processing Model of Face Recognition, Zhuo’s Morphological-Tuning Model, Wang’s Two-Stage Face Recognition Model, and Anderson’s Adaptive Control of Thought. The contents of the training contain self-instruction, feature abstraction, mnemonics, and positive reinforcement. After analyzing the 2(normal/ patient)* 2(facial training/ typhoon education) MACOVA design on the pre test and the difference between the pre and post test of accuracy, reaction time, and declarative knowledge score, there was the program effect. There were significant results in the facial emotion recognition training group and negative emotion categories on the accuracy and declarative knowledge score. There was no significant difference between normal and patient group due to covariance of IQ and educational levels on the accuracy and declarative knowledge score. There was no main effect in the reaction time due to the floor effect and the diversity of metacognition function. Basing on the results, the author suggested the direction for developing the training program further, and made comments on the future of neurocognitove enhancing training.