Family dysfunction

• What type of approach is the schizophrenogenic mother?

  Psychodynamic
• Who proposed the schizophrenogenic mother?

  Fromm-Reichmann
• What did Fromm-Reichmann propose?

  Schizophrenogenic mother
• What does schizophrenogenic mean?

  Schizophrenia-causing
• What is the schizophrenogenic mother?

  Cold, rejecting and controlling
• Who proposed the double-bind theory?

  Bateson
• What did Bateson propose?

  Double-bind theory
• What is Bateson's double-bind theory?

  Family climate important but emphasis on communication style
• Double-bind theory is a risk factor of schizophrenia
• What will a child feel like according to the double-bind theory?

  Trapped in situations where they fear doing wrong but cannot comment and receives mixed signals
• What is expressed emotion?

  Level of emotion expressed towards someone with schizophrenia
• What type of emotion is expressed emotion typically?

  Negative
• What are the three elements of expressed emotion?

  1. Verbal criticism
  2. Hostility
  3. Emotional overinvolvement
• High level of expressed emotion = source of stress
• What is expressed emotion an explanation for?

  Relapse
• Expressed emotion maintains schizophrenia, not causes it
• What does expressed emotion link to?

  Diathesis-stress model