Which of the Following Is True of Expressed Emotion and Relapse

question 52

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of expressed emotion and relapse in patients with schizophrenia?

• A)Therapists have no difficulty changing entrenched communication patterns between patients with schizophrenia and their primary caregivers.
• B)Delusions and hallucinations will elicit more negative expressed emotion from family members than blunted affect or lack of motivation.
• C)Hostility observed in some family members indicate that negative symptoms of the person with schizophrenia are learned behaviors.
• D)Interventions that reduce family expressed emotion tend to reduce the relapse rate in schizophrenic family members.

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