Family Explanations Flashcards
Family Explanations
Suggests dysfunctional family relationships and environment may cause/trigger schizophrenia and also increase the rate of relapse
Schizogenic Mother
Proposed by Freida Reichmann, found schizophrenic mothers were often cold, rejecting and controlling which creates a stressful and tense family dynamic causing schizophrenia
+Case study support
-Hard to generalise
Double Blind theory
Suggests that children have a desire not to do wrong but if parents give them mixed messages it creates confusion, if they punish them for being wrong it creates maldaptive thinking-they think the world is confusing-leads to disorganised thinking, social withdrawal
Who proposed the schizogenic mother theory
Freida Reichman
Who proposed the double blind theory?
Bateson
Expressed emotion theory
Families with high levels of dysfunctional relationships and communication-e.g hostility, criticism and negativity are a source of stress which can trigger relapse or cause the disorder, Kavanagh found those who returned to dysfunctiomal families had a higher relapse rate
Who found returning to families with high expressed emotion increases relapse rate?
Kavanagh
Evaluation of family dysfunction-Reductionist
-Reduces all behaviour to the environment, overlooks biological factors
Evaluation-Diathesis stress model
-It may not be the cause of the disorder but it may cause a high amount of stress triggering a predisposition-not entirely valid.
