Family dysfunction
- Created by: Georgia
- Created on: 14-04-19 23:22
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- Family dysfunction
- The schizo-phrenogenic mother
- Theory established from childhood accounts of schizophrenic patients
- Retrospective data so unreliable
- Attributes; controlling, cold, rejecting, perfectionist, secretive, over-protective
- Theory established from childhood accounts of schizophrenic patients
- Expressed emotion
- Criticism, hostility and over expressed emotion cause stress
- Suggests stress is an environmental trigger if already vulnerable (diathesis-stress)
- Causes relapse when patients are returned to their families
- Kavanagh (1992) 48% relapse rate for families with high EE, 21% for low EE
- Criticism, hostility and over expressed emotion cause stress
- Double-bind theory
- Verbal behaviour contrasts exhibited behaviour, causing confusion
- Confusion resulting in disorganised thinking and paranoia
- Berger (1965) Schizophrenics reported higher recall of double-bind statements by mothers than non-schizophrenics
- Verbal behaviour contrasts exhibited behaviour, causing confusion
- Evaluation
- Supported by research evidence
- Problems when blaming the parents
- Does dysfunction cause schizophrenia or is it the other way around? (Correlational studies, C+E)
- Supported by therapies; reduced expressed emotion reduces symptoms
- Doesn't explain why all children in dysfunctional families develop schizophrenia
- Too reductionist; ignores biology; research has shown that medication works
- The schizo-phrenogenic mother
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