Schizophrenia: Psychological explanation

Question 1

Family disfunction

(-) blames families
(-) ignores biological

Answer 1

• conditions in dysfunctional families = schizophrenia
e.g ‘cold and dominant’ schizophrenogenic mother creates conflict causing disorder

• double bind theory: faulty family communication = contradictory messages for children = disorder
• Expressed Emotion ‘hostile’ environments that criticise sufferers show increase in relapse + may cause disorder

Question 2

Cognitive Explanations

Answer 2

Dysfunctional thought processing leads to symptoms e.g delusions

• those with short term memory problems and those who took longer to encode stimuli have inability to process info, and more likely to be diagnosed with disorder

(-) doesn’t really determine a cause for the disorder

Question 3

Socio-cultural

Answer 3

Those with low social status e.g due to discrimination undergo more stress levels which can cause schizophrenia