Schizophrenia Flashcards
Family dysfunction
Abnormal processes within a family such as poor communication, cold parenting and high levels of expressed emotion. These can be risk factors for both the development and maintenance of sz
What are the three main theories?
Schizophrenogenic mother
Double bind theory.
Expressed emotion theory
What type of explanation is family dysfunction?
A psychological explanation
Who proposed the the idea of the schizophrenogenic mother?
Freida Fromm-Reichmann
Schizophrenogenic mother
Schizophrenia causing mother. She is cold, rejecting snd controlling and tends to create a family characterised by tension and secrecy
What did Gregory Bateson et al say?
Family climate is important, especially communication style.
What happens with a child in a dysfunctional family according to the double bind theory?
The child finds themsleves fearing doing wrong, revcieving mixed messages about what is wring and they feel unable to comment on the unfairness of situation or seek clarification.
When the child gets it wrong they are punished with withdrawal of love.
What is expressed emotion?
level of emotion, in particular negative emotion, expressed towards a patient by their carers.
What are some of the elements of expressed emotion?
- Verbal criticism of the patient, occasionally accompanied by violence.
- Hostility towards the patient, including anger and rejection.
- Emotional over-involvement in the life of the patient, including needless self sacrifice.
What does expressed emotion do for schizophrenia?
high source of stress for the patient. The EE theory is usually argued as a cause of relapse in a patient. However some have suggested that it can trigger schizophrenia in already vulnerable populations.
How does a schizophrenipogenic mother do for schizophrenia?
The tension and secrecy leads fo distust thta develops into pastnoid delusions and therefore schizophrenia.
Who proposed the double bind theory?
Gregory Bateson et al.
What does the double bind theory do for schizophrenia?
This leaves them with an understanding of the world as confusing and dangerous which is reflected in symptoms such as disorganised thinking and paranoid delusions.
Dysfucntional thought processing
general term meaning information processing that is not functioning normally and produces undesirable consequences.
What do cognitive explanations focus on?
The rold of mental processes. Schizophrenia is associated with several types of abnormal information processing.
