The Effectiveness of Emotional Awareness Education Inpatients with Chronic Mental Disease: Literature Review

Chronic mental illnesses are disruptions in individuals’ feelings, thoughts and cognitive abilities, changes in their personality and individual habits, and social and economic losses. Schizophrenia is one of the most long-term hospitalizations, chronic changes in family life, major changes and difficulties in family life, increased costs at both individual and national levels, and more feared among other diseases. Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness that affects approximately 23 million people in the world, alienating from the usual ways of perception and interpretation, living in an intrinsic inclusion world, negatively affecting the areas of affect, thought, perception and behavior, often requiring hospitalization. Facial recognition, emotion recognition and feeling of expressing feelings in schizophrenia patients are among the negative symptoms of the disease and have a significant effect on the social functioning of the patients. Psychiatric nurses are among the duties and responsibilities of the psychiatry nurses in supporting the patient and family, stigmatization, interpersonal relations, awareness and initiative development, problem solving skills, and social skills training. For this purpose, one of the psychoeducation issues that psychiatric nurses can apply in the care they give to schizophrenia patients is emotional awareness education. It is seen that the trainings on emotional awareness increase the levels of emotional awareness, quality of life, life skills, enjoyment of life and social functionality of the patients, and facilitate the fulfillment of the roles of parenting. The aim of this review is to evaluate the efficacy of emotional awareness training for schizophrenic patients.