Social Evaluation - Dysfunctional Families Flashcards
Evaluate whether double bind is a cause or effect…
Not all studies have found a significant difference in the quality of communications in families with and without schizophrenia
Joan Liem (1974) investigated communication in a structured task by parents of 11 sons with schizophrenia, and found that it was no more disordered than in parents of children without schizophrenia, suggesting that differences are due to parents adapting communication styles for their schizophrenic child
Evaluate the origin of double bind communication…
Mathijs Koopmans (1997) stated that incidental variation in family interactions, at times of family disruption, lead to double bind communication, but there is little empirical evidence to support the idea
Double bind communication may be a symptom of pathology in the parent, which is the greater problem
Greater elaboration of the origins of dysfunctional communications needed to offer a sound explanation
Evaluate research support for expressed emotion…
Vaughn and Leff (1976) found that 53% of those with high EE relatives relapse in 9 months compared to 12% of those with low EE relatives
Robin McCreadie and Karl Phillips (1998) failed to find higher 6-12 month relapse rates in those living in high EE households
EE may be a significant factor in relapse, but it is not the sole factor
Evaluate if schizophrenia is due to shared environment or shared genes…
Schizophrenia could also be treated as a product of family shared genes
Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (2014) found 108 loci associated with schizophrenia, suggesting a contradictory viewpoint to the role of the family
Diathesis-stress model could reveal that family relationships act as a psychosocial trigger that causes genetically vulnerable people to develop schizophrenia
