Family Dysfunction Explanation

Question 1

The basis of family dysfunction explanation of schiz

Answer 1

sees maladaptive relationships and patterns of communication within families as source of stress which can contribute to the development of schiz

Question 2

3 characteristic that parents of schiz display

Answer 2

High levels of interpersonal conflict
Difficulty communicating with each other
Excessively critical and overprotective

Question 3

Double bind Theory AO1

Answer 3

children who frequently receive contradictory messages from their parents are more likely to develop schiz
Interactions prevent the development of an internally coherent construction of reality and in the long term manifests itself as schiz symptoms
Linked to the ideas of Laing who argued that schiz is a response to intolerable stresses in the family and society

Question 4

what are double bind situations

Answer 4

contradictory actions where parents give verbal message but the exact opposite behaviour is shown

Question 5

what are double bind statements

Answer 5

when parents give verbal messages that contradict each other eg ‘you need to be more spontaneous’

Question 6

Double Bind Theory AO3: Tiernari adoption study supporting

Answer 6

Importance of family relationships in development with SZ was supported by the study of Tiernari
Findings were that adopted children with biological schiz parents were more likely to become ill than children with biological non-schiz
parents. However difference only emerged only when the adopted families were labelled as disturbed
Suggests illness manifest under appropiate environmental conditions so genetic vulnerability was not sufficient