Socio-Cultural Factor
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- Created on: 26-02-13 18:23
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- Socio-cultural Factors
- AO1
- Prior to schizophrenic episode, patients report twice as many stressful life events
- Double-bind theory - contradictory messages from parents prevent coherent construction of reality, lead to schizophrenic symptoms
- Expressed emotion - family communication style involving criticism, hostility and emotional over-involvement
- Leads to stress beyond impaired coping mechanisms and so schizophrenia
- Labelling theory - symptoms of schizophrenia seen as deviant from rules ascribed to normal experience. Diagnostic label leads to self-fulfilling prophecy
- AO2
- Some evidence challenges link between life events and schizophrenia. Evidence for link is only correlational,not causal.
- Importance of family relationships in development of schizophrenia shown in adoption study by Tienari et al
- Double-bind theory supported by Berger - schizophrenics recalled more double-bind statements from mothers.
- Expressed emotion - has led to effective therapy for relatives
- Scheff - 13/18 studies consistent with predictions of labelling theory
- Link supported in both retrospective and prospective studies
- Expressed emotion effects much less common in non-individualist cultures
- AO1
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