Which of the Following Is NOT True About the Families

question 73

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT true about the families of people with schizophrenia?

• A) Families high in expressed emotion often have ideas about how the family member with schizophrenia can improve his or her symptoms.
• B) A family with high expressed emotion will often create stress for the person with schizophrenia that may overwhelm his or her ability to cope, and thus trigger new episodes of psychosis.
• C) Critics of the expressed-emotion theory argue that the hostility and intrusiveness observed in families of people with schizophrenia might be the result of schizophrenic symptoms rather than contributors to relapse.
• D) Families tend to be more forgiving of the negative symptoms of the individual with schizophrenia than positive emotions, because negative emotions appear uncontrollable.

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