Socio-cultural factors
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- Created on: 20-12-13 15:37
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- Socio-cultural factors - Psychological explanation!
- Family theories - abnormal and inadequate patterns of communication within families of sch patients.
- Bateson et al 1956 - double bind theory. Members of sch families communicate in a destructive and ambiguous fashion.
- AO2 - Berger found sch reported a higher recall of double bind statements by their mothers.
- Liem found no difference compared to normal families.
- Ethical issues regarding placing the blame on Mothers.
- Expressed emotion - interactions with the family play a key role.
- Family members that are highly critical and hostile to each other.
- Individuals who have suffered from sch and live with families that have high expressed emotion are 4 times more likely to relapse (Kavangh).
- A02 - Mischler & Waxler found significant differences in the way mothers spoke to their sch daughters compared to their non sch.
- The social causation hypothesis - members of lower social classes are more vulnerable to sch.
- Turner & Wagonfield - fathers of sch tend to belong to lower social classes.
- Family theories - abnormal and inadequate patterns of communication within families of sch patients.
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